A warning about rsync in stable: it became broken 3 days ago, is now fixed

[David <bouncingcats@gmail.com>]

Hi,

For anyone not subscribed to debian-security-announce mailing list:

1) You should subscribe to it :)

2) rsync received a security update 3 days ago [1] with multiple fixes.

3) But that update also introduced a regression in the rsync -H option
   (preserves hard links).

4) That regression is now fixed in bookworm [2]

5) That's all I know. I just thought it might be helpful to share this
   information here because it might affect people's backup systems.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2025/msg00004.html
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2025/msg00006.html