Please sync gddrescue 1.11-1 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas]

 gddrescue (1.11-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New maintainer. (Closes: #541329)
   * New upstream release (Closes: #460946)
   * Improve long description to make difference between
     gddrescue and ddrescue more obvious.
   * Some package cleanups and updates to make lintian happy:
     - Add watch file.
     - Drop dh templates from debian/rules.
     - Drop config.guess stuff from debian/rules.
     - Drop debian/info (info already present in rules file).
     - Bump Standard-Version to 3.8.2 (no further changes).
     - Bump Compat-Version to 5.
     - Update copyright file.
     - Add Homepage and VCS headers.
     - Build-Depends on debhelper >= 5.
     - Move debian/dirs to debian/rules.
     - Do not strip binary via install. (Closes: #436947)
     - Do not ignore 'make clean' errors, instead check for precense
       of Makefile.
     - Drop /usr/share/info/dir.gz + /usr/share/info/dir.old.gz
     - Provide README.Debian and document log flodding issue.
       (Closes: #427268)
     - Drop debian/semantic.cache.

 -- Michael Prokop <email address hidden> Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:06:23 +0200

[Inkwina (phsi)]

I think this refers to the gddrescue package.

[jojo4u (bugzilla-freedom-x)]

Version 1.8 is out now! Please update, since there are major improvements.

Changes in version 1.6:
* A major code reorganization has been undertaken.
* This version skips faster over damaged areas after two consecutive
errors have been encountered.
* A new pass has been added that trims error areas backward before splitting.
* Support for sparse writes to the output file has been added.
* Blocks longer than sector size are now split at sector boundaries.
* The new option "--fill" has been added.
* The new chapter "Fill Mode" has been added to the manual.
* A "current status" line has been added to the logfile.
* This version can resume an interrupted retry pass instead of reinitiating it.
* This version achieves perfect resumability if interrupted during trimming or splitting.
* Handle also SIGHUP and SIGTERM (like SIGINT) to allow clean interrupt on connection loss or system shutdown.
* The "--quiet" option also quiets error messages.
* Print a more informative error message when reading an old logfile.
* A note has been added to the manual about old logfiles.
* Consistency checks have been added to detect possible bugs.

Changes in version 1.7:
* This version skips very fast over damaged areas.
* This version maintains the logfile minimized at all times, improving efficiency.
* The error count now shows the number of error areas found, irrespective of their sizes.
* When splitting, this version jumps to the next non-split area after two consecutive errors have been encountered in the current one.
* Target "check" has been added to Makefile.
* The new option "--retrim" has been added.

Changes in version 1.8:
  * The new option "--generate-logfile" has been added.
  * The new option "--synchronous" has been added.
  * Fill mode now works when outfile offset differs from 0.
  * The chapter "Fill Mode" of the manual has been updated.

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

Yet another new version (1.9) released:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ddrescue/

This package becoming very out of date, please update.

2008-11-17 Antonio Diaz <email address hidden>

 * Version 1.9 released.
 * Added new option `--domain-logfile'.
 * Verbosity control of messages has been simplified.
 * Changed LONG_LONG_MAX to LLONG_MAX.

[field33P (chris-vd-k)]

I made an update.
https://launchpad.net/%7Echris-vd-k/+archive/ppa/+sourcepub/542058/+listing-archive-extra

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)]

field33P wrote on 2009-04-06:
>I made an update. https://launchpad.net/%7Echris-vd-k/+archive/ppa

Than you very much. Could you put your updated package into official Ubuntu universe repositories?

[Rich (rincebrain)]

Can we please get an NMU in Debian?

Actually, hm. I suspect debian-forensics is responsible for this, I'll ask them.

[BCMM (ben-benmorris)]

Ubuntu doesn't seem to support raw devices very well any more (fair enough, as they were deprecated quite a while ago), so versions of gddrescue that don't support direct disk access are now a bit useless, as that functionality is supposed to replace the raw device support in gddrescue.

Also note that GNU mirrors don't keep any versions before 1.6 around any more; 1.2 really is obsolete now.

[BCMM (ben-benmorris)]

Maybe the importance of this bug should be upgraded, as a major feature of the application is now effectively broken?

(Sorry for the doublepost).

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

There is a debian update going through the mentor process:
http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/sponsor-pkglist?action=details;package=gddrescue

With any luck it'll get through soon and we can get a MOTU to simply sync from that

[Artur Rona (ari-tczew)]

 ddrescue (1.14-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New maintainer. (Closes: #541328)
   * New upstream release. (Closes: #533483)
   * Make package lintian clean and improve packaging:
     - Bump Standard-Version to 3.8.2 (no further changes).
     - Move DH_COMPAT from debian/rules to debian/compat and set to level 5.
     - Drop unnecessary configure target from debian/rules.
     - Do not ignore errors from 'make clean' in debian/rules.
     - Update copyright file.
     - Build-Depends on debhelper >= 5.
     - Add Homepage and VCS headers.
     - Drop debian/rules.cdbs and debian/dd_rescue.1.patch.
     - Drop irrelevant CFLAGS from debian/rules.
     - Update watch format to version 3. (Closes: #529105)
     - Disable INSTALLFLAGS in Makefile so we don't strip the binary.
       (Closes: #436709)
     - Improve long description to make difference between
       gddrescue and ddrescue more obvious. (Closes: #537697)
       (Closes: #505831)
     - Provide README.Debian and document log flodding issue.

 -- Michael Prokop <email address hidden> Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:07:36 +020

[Artur Rona (ari-tczew)]

 gddrescue (1.11-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New maintainer. (Closes: #541329)
   * New upstream release (Closes: #460946)
   * Improve long description to make difference between
     gddrescue and ddrescue more obvious.
   * Some package cleanups and updates to make lintian happy:
     - Add watch file.
     - Drop dh templates from debian/rules.
     - Drop config.guess stuff from debian/rules.
     - Drop debian/info (info already present in rules file).
     - Bump Standard-Version to 3.8.2 (no further changes).
     - Bump Compat-Version to 5.
     - Update copyright file.
     - Add Homepage and VCS headers.
     - Build-Depends on debhelper >= 5.
     - Move debian/dirs to debian/rules.
     - Do not strip binary via install. (Closes: #436947)
     - Do not ignore 'make clean' errors, instead check for precense
       of Makefile.
     - Drop /usr/share/info/dir.gz + /usr/share/info/dir.old.gz
     - Provide README.Debian and document log flodding issue.
       (Closes: #427268)
     - Drop debian/semantic.cache.

 -- Michael Prokop <email address hidden> Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:06:23 +0200

[James Westby (james-w)]

This requires a sponsor ACK first.

Thanks,

James

[Alessio Treglia (quadrispro)]

Sync-req ACK'd.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

lp_archive@cocoplum:~/syncs$ sync-source.py -b quadrispro gddrescue
Getting binaries for karmic...
[Updating] gddrescue (1.2-1.3 [Ubuntu] < 1.11-1 [Debian])
 * Trying to add gddrescue...
  - <gddrescue_1.11.orig.tar.gz: downloading from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/>
  - <gddrescue_1.11-1.diff.gz: downloading from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/>
  - <gddrescue_1.11-1.dsc: downloading from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/>
I: gddrescue [universe] -> gddrescue_1.2-1.3 [universe].

[Jure Sah (dustwolfy)]

Could you please add the new version for the older Ubuntu releases as well? Currently only Lucid and Karmic have the latest version. (Is there a reason for this?)

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

> Could you please add the new version for the older Ubuntu releases as well?
> Currently only Lucid and Karmic have the latest version. (Is there a reason
> for this?)

If you want that, you have to file for a SRU:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

I've built some (untested) backports in my ppa, if you want: https://edge.launchpad.net/~stefanor/+archive/ppa/+packages