cmdeploy fails - The `files.rsync` operation is in alpha

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• Server OS: Debian 13.1
• On which OS you run cmdeploy (setup machine): Debian 13.1
• chatmail/relay version: c568052

Expected behavior

Successful first deploy of chatmail relay following READ.me on the repo.

Actual behavior

scripts/cmdeploy run stops with error on 'files.rsync' step.

Logs

On the setup machine the error is the following:

--> Starting operation: files.rsync (/root/relay/www/build/, /var/www/html, flags=['-avz'])
    The `files.rsync` operation is in alpha!
    [chat.domainremoved.com] Command socket/SSH error: OSError('rsync: [receiver] failed to set permissions on "/var/www/html/.collage-info.png.s7xjrE": Bad address (14)\nrsync: [receiver] failed to set permissions on "/var/www/html/.collage-privacy.png.adB9GV": Bad address (14)\nrsync: [receiver] failed to set permissions on "/var/www/html/.collage-top.png.395yfj": Bad address (14)\nrsync: [receiver] failed to set permissions on "/var/www/html/.index.html.h9oQv2": Bad address (14)\nrsync: [receiver] failed to set permissions on "/var/www/html/.info.html.56grSM": Bad address (14)\nrsync: [receiver] failed to set permissions on "/var/www/html/.logo.svg.boY2re": Bad address (14)\nrsync: [receiver] failed to set permissions on "/var/www/html/.main.css.y0xbUk": Bad address (14)\nrsync: [receiver] failed to set permissions on "/var/www/html/.privacy.html.U2eFtX": Bad address (14)\nrsync: [receiver] failed to set permissions on "/var/www/html/.qr-chatmail-invite-chat.domainremoved.com.png.yFOvOH": Bad address (14)\nrsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1338) [sender=3.4.1]',)
    [chat.domainremoved.com] Error: executed 0 commands

--> Disconnecting from hosts...
--> pyinfra error: No hosts remaining!
Deploy failed

Taking a look on the server, files don't exist:

root@chatrelay-server-debian-1:~# ls -lah /var/www/html/
total 232K
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Sep 24 20:58 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Sep 24 20:59 ..
-rw------- 1 root root  51K Sep 24 22:23 collage-info.png
-rw------- 1 root root  67K Sep 24 22:23 collage-privacy.png
-rw------- 1 root root  60K Sep 24 22:23 collage-top.png
-rw------- 1 root root 1.7K Sep 24 22:23 index.html
-rw------- 1 root root 2.6K Sep 24 22:23 info.html
-rw------- 1 root root 4.5K Sep 24 22:23 logo.svg
-rw------- 1 root root 1.4K Sep 24 22:23 main.css
-rw------- 1 root root 9.7K Sep 24 22:23 privacy.html
-rw------- 1 root root 4.9K Sep 24 22:23 qr-chatmail-invite-chat.domainremoved.com.png
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Sep 24 22:13 .well-known

That's all.

Just as a suggetion, it could be nice to add a dependency list for the setup machine and for the server, to avoid "try and error" cycle (openssh-server, git, python3, python3-venv, rsync, python3-dev, gcc, free port 53, ...).