From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Bishmer J. Sekaran" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add dcfldd Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 23:00:35 +0800 Message-ID: <53EA2C13.7020808@scorpionrock.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36957) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHDbH-0007vt-98 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:03:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHDb9-0005mg-Px for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:02:59 -0400 Received: from biz88.inmotionhosting.com ([173.247.248.166]:41556) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHDb9-0005k8-Ka for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:02:51 -0400 References: 20140806171745.GA26261@debian List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: andreas@enge.fr Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org > This should be something starting with > mirror://sourceforge/ > potentially > mirror://sourceforge/dcfldd/dcfldd/1.3.4-1/dcfldd- > (I always try it out). Maybe you could also string-append once more with > the version to get rid of the middle "1.3.4.-1" and make updates easier. Thank you, will fix. > > Hm, I wonder about the political question whether as the GNU system, we > should package forks of GNU software. (The authors are also rather > suspicious...) Speaking strictly for myself I find both the progress indicator and the speed improvements extremely useful features. I would also hope we are willing to accept all useful free software, regardless of provenance, for inclusion in Guix. -Bishmer