Bug#990694: marked as done (unison -addversionno option broken)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #990694,
regarding unison -addversionno option broken
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: unison-2.51+4.11.1
Version: 2.51.3-1
The -addversionno option of unison attempts to invoke the same version of unison on the server as on the client, to prevent version mismatches.
This facility seems to have been broken since Debian has augmented the version number of the binary with the ocaml library version.
Example to reproduce:
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$touch test.src
$unison -addversionno test.src ssh://localhost/test.dst
Unison 2.51.3 (ocaml 4.11.1): Contacting server...
bash: line 1: unison-2.51: command not found
Fatal error: Lost connection with the server
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The problem is that "unison-2.51" is invoked over the ssh connection, but the unison package no longer provides a binary or symlink with this name.
It does provide:
/usr/bin/unison-2.51+4.11.1 (binary)
/usr/bin/unison (symlink)
A workaround is to install the symlink manually, e.g.:
$sudo ln -s ../../bin/unison-2.51+4.11.1 /usr/local/bin/unison-2.51
Suggested possible bug fixes:
1) Install an additional /usr/bin/unison-2.51 symbolic link in the package, or
2) Modify the unison source to invoke "unison-2.51+4.11.1" instead of "unison-2.51" when the -addversionno option is supplied (however this might break compatibility with other systems).
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Version: 2.51.3-1+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package unison-2.51+4.11.1 has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1006259
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
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