On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Michael Prokop wrote:
I just uploaded ddrescue 1.23, but I'm considering to drop ddrescue in the
long run, see argumentation by Antonio in
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=252198#27
Yes, you should drop dd_rescue.
I do not intend to include or package dd_rhelp, as even upstream
considers it deprecated:
| For some times, dd_rhelp was the only tool (AFAIK) that did this
| type of job, but since a few years, it is not true anymore : Antonio
| Diaz did write a ideal replacement for my tool : GNU 'ddrescue'.
| [...]
| Nevertheless, I really encourage you to use this replacement tool if
| it works for you (and it should be the case).
| [...]
| dd_rhelp was meant as a quick hack to implement what dd_rescue
| didn't do, and what couldn't be done at that time (AFAIK).
-- http://www.kalysto.org/utilities/dd_rhelp/index.en.html
I'm therefore (finally) closing this bugreport with wontfix.
You misunderstood what he said.
If you use dd_rescue then you need dd_rhelp, because it's not very useful
without it.
What he said was to drop dd_rescue altogether and switch to ddrescue
(such name confusion!).
But if you are going to keep it then you should also package dd_rhelp,
otherwise anyone wanting to use dd_resuce needs to download dd_rhelp on
their own.
dd_rescue without dd_rhelp is pointless and you might as well just drop
the package altogether.
-Ariel
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