* Antonio Diaz Diaz [Fri Feb 18, 2011 at 05:58:22PM +0100]: > Michael Prokop wrote: >> I'm the maintainer of the ddrescue and gddrescue packages. >> I plan to drop the ddrescue package. > IMHO dropping the gddrescue package and moving GNU ddrescue to the > ddrescue package (replacing dd_rescue) is the least confusing solution > for the users in the long term. > I suppose such replacement may be complicated and create a lot of > problems in the short term, but I still think it is the best solution in > the long term. Ok, I'll think about that. > I guess many people expect to find GNU ddrescue in the ddrescue package, > and if this package is dropped they may wrongly conclude that Debian does > not provide GNU ddrescue instead of searching for the, unknown to them, > gddrescue package. Valid point. > And as 1) the executable names are different, and 2) ddrescue is mainly > used by humans instead of scripts, maybe the short term problems created > by the proposed replacement aren't so serious after all. Thanks for your feedback, Antonio. regards, -mika-
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