Hello Daniel, Sorry for answering so late, it's been almost two years since I took over the maintenance of the fdutils package, but I never took the time to answer this.
I discussed with the fdutils' upstream author and he is not willing to include your script because of its mandatory dependency on pv. Are you still interested in maintaining this script? If so, could you please: 1. ensure that it works with the last Debian-patched fdutils version (which is currently 5.5-20060227-6); 2. make optional any dependency on packets that are not Essential in Debian, that is: pv, dialog and zenity (apparently dialog and zenity are already optional, but as you suggest it would be best if you could change the default UI to avoid requiring them); 3. detect when any of the dependencies is missing (including those provided by Essential packets in Debian). These changes seem small enough, and Alain seems to be interested in including the script upstream if the dependencies are handled better. In any case I can include it in the Debian package. Thanks for your work and sorry again for the late answer, Matteo
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