Plans to update rsync?

[Alex Murray]

Hi Robert

On Fri, 2023-01-20 at 19:24:19 +0100, Robert Landers wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I could not, for the life of me, figure out how to report a bug or
> request a package to be updated (other than emailing this list or
> getting on IRC). But thought I'd give this a try.

The easiest way to report a bug is to simply run the following from a
terminal:

ubuntu-bug rsync

Please ensure you include as much information as possible in the bug
report - I tried looking at
https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS and couldn't find any mention
of this sort of issue so any help you could give on pointing the
developers to the associated upstream bug report / fix would be great.

>
> In rsync 3.2.3, there is a bug when the remote shell is zsh, it sends
> some unescaped characters when using `--chown` flag.
>
> This is fixed in 3.2.5.
>
> Currently, Jammy is shipping 3.2.3, are there any plans to upgrade
> rsync?

Ubuntu does not upgrade package versions during the lifetime of a
release - instead we will backport fixes for bugs / security issues as
appropriate.

>
> The only known workaround is to install an 'out-of-tree' version of
> rsync or switch the remote shell to bash.
>
> Robert Landers
> Software Engineer
> Utrecht NL
>
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