* Luca Capello <l...@pca.it> [Thu Feb 17, 2011 at 12:05:18AM +0100]: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:17:58 +0100, Michael Prokop wrote:
> > I'm the maintainer of the ddrescue and gddrescue packages. > > I plan to drop the ddrescue package. > [...] > > 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. > Without having checked at dd_rescue, but having used gddrescue various > times and being a bit too lazy now to check the following, I guess that > your past concerns do not stand anymore, do they? > <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=537697#10> Correct, I consider gddrescue a full replacement for ddrescue nowadays. > > I propose the removal of the ddrescue package. > +1, I was myself confused while looking at `apt-cache search ddrescue`. Thanks for the feedback, Luca. regards, -mika-
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