Похоже notes больше не работают:

$ rsync devel.alt:/incoming/notes/Sisyphus/
rsync: change_dir "/incoming/notes/Sisyphus" failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors)
      (code 23) at main.c(1509) [receiver=3.0.5dev]


это связано с этим?

$ ssh git.alt help
Available commands:
[...skip...]
notes <repository name> [{<package>|@<group>} {add|del|leader|replace}
      <whitespace-separated-builders>]
nmu <repository name> <package> {add|del} [<builder> [<start-date>
    [<end-date>]]]