Package: wnpp Severity: normal The current maintainer of fdflush, Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, has orphaned this package.
Maintaining a package requires time and skills. Please only adopt this package if you are *sure* you will have enough time and attention to work on it. If you want to be the new maintainer, please see http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html#howto-o for detailed instructions how to adopt a package properly. Some information about this package: Package: fdflush Binary: fdflush Version: 1.0.1.1 Priority: optional Section: utils Maintainer: Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: any Standards-Version: 3.6.1 Format: 1.0 Directory: pool/main/f/fdflush Files: f1e909584848f0088255aef5304f4959 459 fdflush_1.0.1.1.dsc b3821899f5c5bfa99e627f6d0ba320e8 4670 fdflush_1.0.1.1.tar.gz Package: fdflush Priority: optional Section: utils Installed-Size: 52 Maintainer: Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 1.0.1.1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4) Filename: pool/main/f/fdflush/fdflush_1.0.1.1_i386.deb Size: 6328 MD5sum: 2c80f45a76115847ea584f72b0917438 SHA1: bb756f4e0f759d357db4413a5b7660aa73277e83 SHA256: 7945703630756ca9f3e208431c8d634642afb325df9ce94f6903feb63928ff55 Description: Flush out-of-date disk buffers fdflush is a band-aid for floppy (or other) drives with bad disk-change sensing. fdflush makes the system believe the disk-change switch has been triggered forcing the system to discard the buffered data. . If you have one of these slightly-broken disk drives, you'll have to run fdflush every time you change a disk. . fdflush is useful for computers which might be sleeping when you change floppies or other removeable media. . The command "floppycontrol -f" does the same thing, but the fdutils package is significantly larger; it only uses the floppy-specific flush ioctl. . The command "blockdev --flushbufs" only uses the generic flush ioctl. Tag: admin::hardware, hardware::storage:floppy, interface::commandline, role::program, scope::utility, use::synchronizing -- Mohammed Adnène Trojette
