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and subject line Bug#1150926: fixed in backintime 1.6.2-1
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regarding backintime: New release 1.6.2
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Package: backintime
Version: 1.6.1
Severity: normal
Dear maintainers,
upstream maintainer here.
I prepared a new point release [1]. I would like to recommend to accept it not
only in "unstable" but also in the "stable" branch of Debian GNU/Linux.
It is a fix-only release. I tried to keep the modifcations as small as possible
to prevent introducing new bugs. Beside the technical details you can find in
the commit history [2] and changelog [3] let me summarize the modifications
from a users perspective.
1. One of the rules to automatically prune old backups ("Remove backups oder
than") never worked. This would increase the storage usage on the users backup
destination.
2. Additionally the dialog to setup that rules ("Remove & Retention") didn't
store the values propertly and corrupted the config file. This release will
auto-repair the config file.
3. "Local encrypted" profiles (using gocryptfs) now show a clear warning in the
GUI (see screenshot in release notes). The detailes are described here [4], but
in short: I need to re-write the mount handling again (in the next major
release 2.0.0). This might cause that "local encrpyted" backups from 1.6.2 are
not accessible anymore in 2.0.0 without a migration. I plan to provide such a
migration path along the 2.0.0 release. But at the current point I can not
gurantee it. To spare my users trouble, I recommend them not to use that mode
if possible.
4. Fixing a crash after adding a SSH host to the known_hosts file.
5. Copyright/Author for "qt/serviceHelper.py" changed.
5. Several minor adjustments described in changelog.
That release become kind of urguent after I realized that the upcoming major
release need to be postponed. And some of the issues can't wait anymore until
the major release.
I am sorry for the inconvinience.
Regards,
Christian Buhtz
upstream maintainer
[1] -- https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/releases/tag/v1.6.2
[2] -- https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/compare/v1.6.1...v1.6.2
[3] -- https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/blob/v1.6.2/CHANGES
[4] -- https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/blob/dev/doc/GOCRYPT_MIGRATION.md
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.7
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.111+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: backintime
Source-Version: 1.6.2-1
Done: Fabio Fantoni <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
backintime, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Fabio Fantoni <[email protected]> (supplier of updated backintime package)
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 18:19:21 +0200
Source: backintime
Architecture: source
Version: 1.6.2-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Jonathan Wiltshire <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Fabio Fantoni <[email protected]>
Closes: 1127388 1150926
Changes:
backintime (1.6.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* New upstream version 1.6.2 (Closes: #1150926)
* d/watch: track only stable releases (Closes: #1127388)
* d/rules: fix cleanup of the generated manual pages
* d/control:
- update standards version to 4.7.4, no changes needed
- drop the redundant Priority field
* d/patches:
- remove one patch applied upstream and refresh other
- fix metadata and project license in the AppStream metainfo
* update d/copyright
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