We were running happily on 0.6.23 and wanted to use the infrequent storage class from AWS. After trying 0.7.10, we found that memory consumption was higher than in 0.6.23. Hence we backported the infrequent access storage class (it's only 10 lines of code).

git checkout master

wget http://mirror.yannic-bonenberger.com/nongnu/duplicity/duplicity-0.6.26.tar.gz

tar xvzf duplicity-0.6.26.tar.gz

git add . git commit -m "imported upstream version X"

git checkout byte

git rebase -i master

vim debian/changelog

gbp buildpackage --git-pbuilder --git-dist=precise --git-arch=amd64 --git-debian-branch=byte