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Re: [ITP] ddrescue 1.3


On May 29 15:47, Christian Franke wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> > On May 18 21:03, Christian Franke wrote:
> >   
> >> ...
> >> I posted a patch to cygwin-patches.
> >>     
> >
> > Do you want to ITP ddrescue nevertheless?
> >
> >   
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Meantime I realized that at least on Debian the package and
> executable are named "gddrescue" to distinguish it from the
> older dd_rescue (http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/).
> 
> Distro / Package Name:
> 
> .          GNU ddrescue    dd_rescue
> Debian     gddrescue       ddrescue
> gentoo     ddrescue        dd-rescue
> FreeBSD    -               dd_rescue
> 
> Keep the name ddrescue or better use gddrescue on Cygwin?

Nice ambiguity.  GNU ddrescue is called ddrescue on Fedora, so let's
stick to ddrescue.  Do you have a new version of the package or is
the latest ITP still valid?


Corinna

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