* David Stansby <[email protected]> [20090813 11:16]: > I'm filing this bug to call for the removal of ddrescue from debian. This is > for the following reasons:
> 1. ddrescue contains dd_rescue, whereas gddrescue contains dd_rescue and
> dd_rhelp, so gddrescue has superseeded ddrescue
gddrescue: /sbin/ddrescue
ddrescue: /bin/dd_rescue
I don't find dd_rhelp anywhere.
> 2. ddrescue has not been updated for over two years now, and is no longer in
> active development, whereas gddrescue is
I plan to NMU the ddrescue package.
(And if Ayman Negm doesn't have any objections I'd volunteer in
taking over maintenance.)
> 3. There is some confusion over the naming of these two packages, and I
> belive that removing ddrescue will go some way to alleviating this confusion
Yeah, I think we could improve the package descriptions so it's more
obvious what you'll get.
Though I don't want to see ddrescue disapear from Debian.
It supports a few options that I don't find in gddrescue yet,
namely being:
-r reverse direction copy (default=forward)
-w abort on Write errors (default=no)
-a spArse file writing (default=no)
-A Always write blocks, zeroed if err (default=no)
-i interactive: ask before overwriting data (default=no)
-f force: skip some sanity checks (default=no)
regards,
-mika-
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
