Why rsync update?
Hello,
I'm an upstream maintainer of a GUI application using rsync in the back. I try to understand the update policy of Ubuntu and want to learn.
To my knowledge in Ubuntu 22.04 (LTS) rsync has been updated from 3.2.3 to 3.2.7 on Feb 27.
Regarding to semantic versioning this should be a problem. But rsync doesn't follow the semantic versioning. There was a big breaking change in version 3.2.4 which made the "new argument protect" the default behavior.
This will break some rsync using applications and scripts using rsync over SSH.
It seems to me someone didn't understand the changelog and there wasn't a review and now good testing.
IMHO that update need to be rolled back in Ubuntu 22.04.
But it is just my IMHO and I'm sure there are good reasons why you did it the way you did. I'm asking with intention to learn.
Kind
Christian Buhtz
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