From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add dcfldd Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 19:17:45 +0200 Message-ID: <20140806171745.GA26261@debian> References: <92c8e67cb6f35ac651fb8ca3529d6072.squirrel@webmail.scorpionrock.com> <53DF75D8.606@scorpionrock.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43807) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XF4qr-0007aI-SS for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2014 13:18:21 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XF4qk-0008Mf-D2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2014 13:18:13 -0400 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.131]:54864) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XF4qk-0008MY-30 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2014 13:18:06 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <53DF75D8.606@scorpionrock.com> 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: "Bishmer J. Sekaran" Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello, I did not give it a try, but the package looks generally good to me. On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 08:00:24PM +0800, Bishmer J. Sekaran wrote: > >"http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/dcfldd/dcfldd/1.3.4-1/dcfldd-" 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. > >+ "Created by the US Department of Defence's Computer Forensics > >Laboratory, dcfldd is an enhanced version of GNU dd with features > >+ useful for forensics and security.") 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...) Andreas