On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Michael Prokop wrote:
Please include dd_rhelp in the package. (Or in a different package
with a suggests in dd_rescue.)
dd_rhelp is often the best way to run dd_rescue since it will do
everything automatically.
I'm the new package maintainer of ddrescue and gddrescue.
I'm not sure whether dd_rhelp is really worth a package within
Debian. Nowadays gddrescue (the GNU ddrescue version) supports
resuming from canceled executions and I think that's one of the
major reasons why dd_rescue was interesting in the early days.
If there are any proponents out there with a good argument
why dd_rhelp should become part of Debian I'd take over ITP
and official maintenance of the package.
If you are going to keep ddrescue in debian (and not just gddrescue), then
I think you should include dd_rhelp as part of it. But it doesn't warrant
a package of it's own.
Personally, I would probably use gddrescue if I needed it. I remember
dd_rescue getting slower and slower on each pass as the logfile grew (I
don't know if this was dd_rhelp's fault).
But anyway, if you are going to keep dd_rescue, then have dd_rhelp too.
-Ariel
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