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Duplicity on Xenial

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From: Kenneth Loafman <kenneth@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 10:45:32 -0500

There have been a fair number of requests to backport duplicity 0.8 series
to Xenial.  Good news, it passes all the tests on Xenial under its Python
3.5.  Bad news is that I can't make a PPA entry for Xenial since it
requires python3-pytest-runner to run the tests for Launchpad Builder.
This is because Launchpad blocks access to anything other than Ubuntu
repositories.  As usual, all of this is solved using pip3 to load
requirements.  [pip is to Python as CPAN is to Perl].

I've enabled Python 3.5 in setup, so duplicity will install under pip3:

$ sudo pip3 install duplicity


Snap works as always:

$ sudo snap install duplicity --classic


I am working on the Launchpad issue above.  I'll get there!

...Ken