Re: hardlink util -- files de-duplication

["Francisco J. Tsao Santin" <tsao@gpul.org>]

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On Fri, 1 Jun 2018, Kevin Fenzi wrote:

> On 06/01/2018 06:08 AM, Ruediger Meier wrote:
> > On Friday 01 June 2018, Karel Zak wrote:
> >> the util is little bit orphaned, what about to add this util to
> >> util-linux to make it available for another distros and keep it
> >> maintained in serious way? ;-)
> > 
> 
> I've also added my co-maintainer (tsao@fedoraproject.org).
> He's done most of the recent work on it, I haven't had time to do much
> with it at all.

Yep, I would like having more time to improve a bit the tool but... I
only added some patches for bugfixing.

> 
> I'd personally be in favor of it moving into util-linux. Hopefully it
> would get more time and attention there and more widespread use.
> 
> If tsao agrees, lets make it happen.

Good for me too :-) I only want to point a little issue: I suppose you know,
there is another hardlink tool with similar functions, and (re)written in
python by the Debian people[1][2]. In fact, the name of the file is the
same (but they are placed in different paths, /usr/bin vs /usr/sbin).
I hope it doesn't cause a distro-war ;-)
 
[1] https://packages.debian.org/sid/utils/hardlink
[2] https://jak-linux.org/projects/hardlink/
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