Hello Bill and thanks for this bug report. I can see the issue you described here (thanks for the reproducer), however I believe it should be filed/fixed upstream. Maybe [1] should be expanded to cover --remove- source-files, as the two issues could be related.
Diverging from upstream (or from Debian) has a long-term maintenance cost (e.g. rebasing the patch at every release) and can lead to situations which are difficult to handle well: think of a bug that is later fixed upstream but in a different way, with user-facing differences. What to do then, break compatibility with the older Ubuntu releases, or break compatibility with upstream? While I agree this is a bug in my opinion it is not worth diverging from upstream here. I am setting the status of this bug report to Triaged (it is well understood) but with importance: Wishlist. Should you disagree with my reasoning please comment back and change the bug status back to New, we'll look at it again. Thanks! [1] https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3844 ** Bug watch added: Samba Bugzilla #3844 https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3844 ** Changed in: rsync (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: rsync (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1925381 Title: rsync conceals file deletions from reporting when --dry-run --remove- source-files are used together To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsync/+bug/1925381/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
