Re: [gentoo-dev] QA last rites for sys-fs/dd-rhelp

2010-10-22 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 05:36:08PM +0200, Micha?? Górny wrote: > I don't think there's a reason to do so. We have ddrescue, and users > should be encouraged to migrate to that. Ah, found it (sys-fs/ddrescue, not sys-fs/dd-rescue) and it actually does all the stuff that dd-rhelp does. I guess in th

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA last rites for sys-fs/dd-rhelp

2010-10-22 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:50:21 +0200 Wernfried Haas wrote: > I'd do it myself if i were ebuild maintainer (which i am not), but > maybe someone could pick this up and just make a new ebuild for 0.1.2? > Seems to be a quite simple job and whoever is willing to save this > really useful tool will get

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA last rites for sys-fs/dd-rhelp

2010-10-22 Thread Wernfried Haas
Hi, while this is a tool i never like to use, it's really hand in case you have it around. On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 09:23:30AM +0200, Diego E. Pettenò wrote: > # Obsolete even by upstream standard, since version 0.1.2 > # is out since 2007 (and has a version bump request in bug > # #223299 since M

[gentoo-dev] QA last rites for sys-fs/dd-rhelp

2010-10-22 Thread Diego E . Pettenò
# Diego E. Pettenò (22 Oct 2010) # on behalf of QA team # # Obsolete even by upstream standard, since version 0.1.2 # is out since 2007 (and has a version bump request in bug # #223299 since May 2008); uses “obsolete” tail/head # syntax (bug #159606, the warning has since been removed # from cor

[gentoo-dev] QA last rites for sys-fs/dd-rhelp

2010-10-22 Thread Diego E . Pettenò
# Diego E. Pettenò (22 Oct 2010) # on behalf of QA team # # Outdated even by upstream standards (last version is 0.1.2, # bug #223299 open May 2008); uses obsolete head/tail syntax # (bug #159606); has maintainer-mode-triggered rebuild (bug # #318487) without depending on autotools (and thus fai