Can't restore files in a read-only directory

Here's a karmic debdiff to update to Deja Dup 10.3, which will fix this bug and another (bug 481582).

I think this is useful as an SRU, because this could manifest as data loss if you can't restore files from your backup that are in a read-only directory. It's not clear that this is very common, but apparently Jaunty's Ubuntu One folder was read-only? My karmic folder isn't, but I saw a user that never changed that who had a read-only Ubuntu One folder.

I'm not worried about Lucid, because it will eventually update to 11.1 or later, which has these fixes. I can update that later this cycle.

PPA testing package is here: https://launchpad.net/~mterry/+archive/ppa/+packages

I should note that 10.3 only has the two bug fixes mentioned and a bunch of translation updates. It's not a feature release.

Michael, this is an enormous debdiff containing both the bugfixes and translation updates and other things.... Is there a good reason for this decision as opposed to isolated bugfix patch backports for a SRU? (the latter is preferred/expected by StableReleaseUpdates policies)

OK, can make an isolated bugfix patch. I figured bug-fix point releases were acceptable for universe. Will revise patch to just include bugfixes from 10.3.

OK, here is a patch with just the 10.3 bugfixes (no translation/automake changes).

It does three things:
 - Allow restoring files in a read-only directory
 - Allow restoring a file from a directory that doesn't exist yet
 - Don't download all files to restore just one

The first two can manifest themselves as data loss (or at least, no easy way to get your data that is locked inside your backup). The last could make it very difficult to restore specific data if you are short on disk space (would need to use a different computer). Thus, the SRU request.

Please re-review. Thanks!

Much better, this debdiff looks good, except make karmic -> karmic-proposed to be able to upload it.

ACK from MOTU-SRU for this debdiff!

P.S. To facilitate verification, please edit the original description of the bug to include the information from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure

This bug was fixed in the package deja-dup - 11.1-0ubuntu1

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deja-dup (11.1-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
    - Fixes some restore issues (LP: #483631 and LP: #481582)
    - Can delete old backups (LP: #325005)
    - Can cleanly handle changed hostnames (LP: #454591)
  * Drop 01_lpi.patch: It doesn't make sense to include launchpad
    integration for a non-main app (no translation page). Plus, deja-dup
    already has such links for its own upstream LP page.
  * debian/control: Update dependencies
 -- Michael Terry <email address hidden> Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:39:39 -0600

OK, I pushed the latest Deja Dup to Lucid and pushed my above debdiff to karmic-proposed. Should I add a verification-needed tag?

The archive admin accepting the upload will do that for you.

Accepted deja-dup into karmic-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

I tested all three bugfixes in the version in karmic-proposed. Worked for me.

This bug was fixed in the package deja-dup - 10.2-0ubuntu1.1

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deja-dup (10.2-0ubuntu1.1) karmic-proposed; urgency=low

  * 02_restore-fixes.patch: Some restore fixes backported from 10.3:
    - Allow restoring files in a read-only directory (LP: #483631)
    - Don't download all files to restore just one (LP: #481582)
    - Allow restoring a file from a directory that doesn't exist yet
 -- Michael Terry <email address hidden> Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:00:50 -0600