Package: rsync
Version: 3.2.0-1
Severity: normal
Control: found -1 3.2.3-4
Dear Maintainer,
In [af31473f] for rsync 3.2.0-1, copy-devices.diff was dropped with
the note that "--copy-devices is now --write-devices". Unfortunately,
that is only partially true. Although --write-devices allows writing
to device files, it does not allow copying from devices files as
--copy-devices did. For example, I could create sparse device images
using:
rsync -S --copy-devices /dev/sdX1 /tmp/sdX1.raw
Replacing --copy-devices with --write-devices produces:
skipping non-regular file "sdX1"
Note that [copy-devices.diff] is still maintained in rsync-patches and
was updated to be compatible with --write-devices in [c9d55ab].
Thanks for considering,
Kevin
[af31473f]:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/rsync/-/commit/921ddfb35c2641843cc4f671560d9056ea6b5a05
[c9d55ab]:
https://git.samba.org/?p=rsync-patches.git;a=commitdiff;h=c9d55ab688df0067fd37d5199650615c6d675074#patch11
[copy-devices.diff]:
https://git.samba.org/?p=rsync-patches.git;a=blob;f=copy-devices.diff
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
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Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages rsync depends on:
ii init-system-helpers 1.60
ii libacl1 2.2.53-10
ii libc6 2.31-13
ii liblz4-1 1.9.3-2
ii libpopt0 1.18-2
ii libssl1.1 1.1.1k-1
ii libxxhash0 0.8.0-2
ii libzstd1 1.4.8+dfsg-2.1
ii lsb-base 11.1.0
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2
rsync recommends no packages.
Versions of packages rsync suggests:
ii openssh-client 1:8.4p1-5
ii openssh-server 1:8.4p1-5
ii python3 3.9.2-3
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