Bug#445576: ITP: detach -- command to detach a process

["Bryan Donlan" <bdonlan@gmail.com>]

On 10/6/07, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>
>
> Package name: detach
> Version: 0.2.3-1
> Upstream Author: Robbert Haarman <inglorion@inglorion.net>
> URL: http://inglorion.net/software/detach/
> Description:
>     This command forks a new process, detaches it from the terminal, and
>     executes a given command in it. This can be used for starting
>     processes that don't terminate when the controlling terminal does.

Does this really need a seperate package? Would it perhaps be better
to submit it upstream as part of coreutils or something, or add it to
some other miscellaneous utilities package?