Package Change Request ====================== Package Name: ddrescue New Branches: EL-4 EL-5
Isn't ddrescue dead in favor of dd_rescue? Why are you wanting to bring it back?
as discussed on #fedora-devel: [22:36] < nirik> ixs: why are you bringing back ddrescue? I thought it was dead in favor of the confusingly similar dd_rescue ? [22:37] < ixs> nirik: ddrescue is the _other_ tool. [22:37] < ixs> nirik: the plan was, fix up the name mess with the wrong tool packaged with the wrong name, wait one release or two and then bring in the other. [22:37] < nirik> ixs: what other tool? note that it has no F7/F8 branches... thats why I was thinking it was dead [22:38] < ixs> nirik: it was dead. [22:38] < ixs> nirik: there are two tools. GNU ddrescue and Kurt Garloff's dd_rescue [22:38] < ixs> unfortunately we imported dd_rescue as ddrescue from fedora.us [22:39] < ixs> as people asked about GNU ddrescue in fedora with a bit more functionality than dd_rescue it's undead now. [22:39] < nirik> ok, so moving forward we want ddrescue packaged as ddrescue and drop dd_rescue as dead? [22:40] < ixs> nirik: nope.- [22:40] < ixs> we want to keep dd_rescue as well [22:40] < ixs> so we're just shipping both tools but with the correct names this time. [22:41] < nirik> ixs: ok, yuck. Why can't they get along and ship one tool? oh well. [22:41] < ixs> nirik: There's an evaluation of both packages in the fedora-devel list, must be 2005 or so. The gist was, both tools have their benefits but are slightly different from each other. No real preference. [22:41] < ixs> nirik: agreed. yuck sounds about right.
cvs done.
thx. closing bug.
Package Change Request ====================== Package Name: ddrescue New Branches: epel7 Owners: rebus jussilehtola Hello SCM team, plase can you add epel7 branch for the ddrescue package? Michal Ambroz
Git done (by process-git-requests).