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[Michael Terry <2120709@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello! Upstream maintainer here, and your comment (discussing feature
freeze) is maybe a good opportunity to run through my recommendations
for 25.10, if you'll indulge me.

So Debian recently (finally) updated from the ancient Deja Dup 45.2
version they'd been using to 49.alpha. Which is great! And that means
you folks have 49.x as well. But there are a lot of changes since 45.2.

Bugs that will hit the current packaging in Ubuntu:

OneDrive support is broken (this bug). To avoid updating all of rclone, you could simply add these two patches:
  - https://github.com/rclone/rclone/commit/aee8d909b3925df17f5e0c82348a2597bc3457ac
  - https://github.com/rclone/rclone/commit/dedad9f071d81a2b6bf980d5f48d7997cae160af
  - That's probably enough to make OneDrive work again.

Network server support is broken (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/restic/+bug/2121314). This can be fixed with the following patch in Restic:
  - https://github.com/restic/restic/commit/b71fe91643095cdb8893c6c19b43ee9b21c8c1cd

Restic is now the default backend (instead of Duplicity).
  - To avoid needing to promote Restic to main, I recommend downgrading this from a Depends on the Ubuntu side. Deja Dup will offer to install it via Packagekit on demand.
  - It's not the preferred user experience from my POV, but that might be better for you than a promotion review at this point in the release cycle. Maybe could re-evaluate for 26.04.
  - Alternatively, you could downgrade to Deja Dup 48.4, where Restic was still opt-in and not the default experience. But 49.x is better, and it might be nice to have an extra release cycle before the LTS with this change.
  - Alternatively, you could patch in a new default setting to keep using Duplicity by default (this would be a simple gsettings override) - again, not the preferred user experience, but it's another option.

tl;dr; apply those patches to rclone and restic and downgrade Restic
from a Depends - that should get Deja Dup in a good spot for 25.10,
imho.

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Title:
  latest update failed to backup

Status in deja-dup package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in rclone package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in deja-dup package in Debian:
  New
Status in rclone package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  latest update to 49~alpha-1 make the backup failed.

  and previously backup to onedrive through duplicity and why its auto
  change using rclone?

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 25.10
  Package: deja-dup 49~alpha-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.16.0-13.13-generic 6.16.0
  Uname: Linux 6.16.0-13-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.33.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Fri Aug 15 17:03:44 2025
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2025-06-04 (72 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" - Daily amd64 (20250528)
  SourcePackage: deja-dup
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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