Rsync 2.6.9pre3 released

[Wayne Davison]

On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 03:38:58PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
> I noted that the bug reported in
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4079 wasn't listed as being
> fixed in NEWS, although the patch seems to be applied.

Thanks.  I sometimes miss mentioning changes.  I'll need to make a pass
through the commit logs to see if I missed any other significant
changes.  In the meantime, I've mentioned this fix in the NEWS.

> I think a double dash as used in text -- such as this -- shouldn't be
> escaped.

Sure, I'll go with that.

> I've now applied the acl patch to the Debian version (or is that a bad
> idea, and should I for the time being offer a separate package named
> something like "rsync-acl" ?).

Red Hat has been doing this for a while, so it won't hurt if Debian
joins in the fun.  At least the patch is finally getting to a state
where I'll feel good about having it in the main release (and it may
well achieve full citizenship in the next release).  It may interest you
to know that I did get the ACL version run through IBM's code-checker,
and it didn't complain about anything, so that's always a good sign.

..wayne..