[Bug 161126] Re: Package name misleading

[Christopher Lunsford]

Unfortunately there are 2 different ddrescue packages in Debian. One is
dd_rescue from http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/ and the other
is ddrescue from http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html.
Neither of these homepages are described in their packages which was
even more misleading. The gnu ddrescue author(s) agreed to change the
name in debian as gddresque as described in this bug
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316238 . On further
review I think ddrescue hasn't had an update since 2007, versus
gddrescue's last update this year. And last but not least the gnu
ddrescue combines dd_rescue and dd_rhelp into one program which I think
obsoletes the original dd_rescue. I'm going to report this to Debian's
bug tracker as well.

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Package name misleading
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