Improved file-related error messages by using the new

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@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ Changes since version 2.5.6:
       cause anyone problems since it makes the matching work more like
       what people are expecting. (Wayne Davison)
 
       cause anyone problems since it makes the matching work more like
       what people are expecting. (Wayne Davison)
 

+      - A pattern with a "**" no longer causes a "*" to match slashes.
+        For example, with "/*/foo/**", "foo" must be 2 levels deep.
+

       - "**/foo" now matches at the base of the transfer (i.e. /foo).
 
       - An non-anchored wildcard term floats to match beyond the base of
       - "**/foo" now matches at the base of the transfer (i.e. /foo).
 
       - An non-anchored wildcard term floats to match beyond the base of


@@ -72,6 +75,23 @@ Changes since version 2.5.6:
       that contains already-compressed data.  (Yasuoka Masahiko and
       Wayne Davison)
 
       that contains already-compressed data.  (Yasuoka Masahiko and
       Wayne Davison)
 

+    * Fixed a bug in the --backup code that could cause deleted files
+      to not get backed up.
+
+    * Call setgroups() in a more portable manner.
+
+    * Improved the mkstemp error message to always include the directory
+      info where the temp file is being created. (Wayne Davison)
+
+    * Fixed some bugs in the handling of --delete and --exclude when
+      using the --relative (-R) option. (Wayne Davison)
+
+    * Fixed bug that prevented regular files from replacing
+      special files and caused a directory in --link-dest or
+      --compare-dest to block the creation of a file with the
+      same path.  A directory still cannot be replaced by a
+      regular file unless --delete specified.  (J.W. Schultz)
+

   INTERNAL:
 
     * Eliminated vestigial support for old versions that we stopped
   INTERNAL:
 
     * Eliminated vestigial support for old versions that we stopped