Re: Request for Comments: Planned removal of ddrescue

2011-02-23 Thread Michael Prokop
* 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)

Re: Request for Comments: Planned removal of ddrescue

2011-02-23 Thread Michael Prokop
* Luca Capello [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 provid

Re: Request for Comments: Planned removal of ddrescue

2011-02-18 Thread Antonio Diaz Diaz
Hello Mika et all, 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

Re: Request for Comments: Planned removal of ddrescue

2011-02-16 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there! 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. Als

Request for Comments: Planned removal of ddrescue

2011-02-16 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi, I'm the maintainer of the ddrescue and gddrescue packages. I plan to drop the ddrescue package. Background: ddrescue provides the dd_rescue binary, gddrescue provides the ddrescue binary. As you might notice this is far from a perfect situation and confuses users. * ddrescue = http://www.g