... so that this option can be disabled on systems that don't support it.
This also allows to use another compression program, such as pbzip2 on SMP
machines (closes Roundup bug #2405).

... for rdiff.helper, dup.helper, example.dup and example.rdiff.

... instead of previous /var/backups/duplicity.

This is the only way to securely transmit the FTP password from backupninja
to duplicity.

I'd love to use "dpkg --compare-versions" but we don't want backupninja to be
Debian-specific. Any similar tool?

Signed-off-by: intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org>

This is necessary to get rid of unnecessary old cache files when cleaning up,
when using duplicity >=0.6.01 that depends on local caching.

Closes: #572721

to improve the ninjahelper interface as requested by alster in redmine

something to the changelog all for 98e62c95

Thanks to maniacmartin <martin@maniacmartin.com> for the patch on which this one
is based.
This closes Redmine bug #1209.

Thanks to stefan <s.freudenberg@jpberlin.de> for the patch.
This fixes Redmine bug #658.

This also fixes Redmine bug #1021.

This should fix Redmine bug #1340.

This option makes pipelines return as status the value of the last (rightmost)
command to exit with a non-zero status, or zero if all commands exit
successfully. See bash(1) for details.

E.g. this prevents the following from exiting with status 0 (!) if pg_dumpall
fails:

        pg_dumpall | gzip

reportspace: skip non-directories and places that don't exist on the local filesystem (Closes: #536049)

Cherry-picked and re-indented patch 76792c8f45afa1fdaeb81c2af77499ca0b83ce64
from Olivier Berger.

Conflicts:

	src/backupninja.in

This commit (64edfccf) was wrongly committed to
the debian branch.

Conflicts:

	handlers/mysql.in