Hi, I'm the maintainer of the ddrescue and gddrescue packages. I plan to drop the ddrescue package. Background: ddrescue provides the dd_rescue binary, gddrescue provides the ddrescue binary. As you might notice this is far from a perfect situation and confuses users. * ddrescue = http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/ * gddrescue = http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html Popcon currently lists more ddrescue installations than gddrescue: http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=gddrescue+ddrescue&show_installed=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1 But this is very probably caused by the (misleading) package names and users not being fully aware of the ddrescue (dd_rescue) vs. gddrescue (ddrescue) issue. I'd like to get rid of this confusion now. AFAICT gddrescue provides all the features (and even more) ddrescue does. Also from a forensic and data rescue POV gddrescue works pretty well and I'm not aware of any issues with it. Related: Ubuntu had a similar discussion in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gddrescue/+bug/161126 Suggestion: I propose the removal of the ddrescue package. If anyone has any objections against the removal of ddrescue please share why you think it's worth supporting it, otherwise I'd file a request for removal of ddrescue. thanks && regards, -mika-
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