I've been experimenting with dd_rescue (in ddrescue) for a few months and can confirm it works only for a small subset of cases that other tools (like dvdbackup or gddrescue) work.
I can definitely see that people looking for a "ddrescue" binary might get confused between the ddrescue and gddrescue, and end up using the wrong one. I don't know if that's bad enough to warrant diverging from debian on this, but I don't really see much value in keeping the ddrescue package when gddrescue seems to be better. The debian bug alludes to functionality which is in ddrescue but not gddrescue. Might be worth doing a review of those features, possibly those functions exist in gddrescue by a different name, or are not relevant. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/161126 Title: Please remove ddrescue from archive (replaced by gddrescue) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ddrescue/+bug/161126/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
