[Pkg-gtkpod-devel] Bug#941682: Bug#941682: Missing program from libimobiledevice-utils suite

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

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control: retitle -1 RFP: idevicerestore
control: reassign-1 wnpp

On Thu, 2019-10-03 at 18:47 +0000, John Cooper wrote:
> When attempting to install and/or check the files installed by visiting for
> example (
> https://packages.debian.org/buster/amd64/libimobiledevice-utils/filelist),
> it list all of the files installed. However it is currently missing one
> major component of the same suite called idevicerestore as major missing
> part. This piece of software is needed to run any restore operations for
> reloading a new clean instance of the iDevice’s firmware (iOS, iPadOS etc).
> It can be in the package specified however it may be better for it to be an
> exception to the rule as it will need to be updated more frequently and/or
> kept more closely up to date than the rest of Debian. Given the mobile
> devices firmware (software update) regularity carried out by Apple Inc.

idevicerestore is a separate utility, not part of libimobiledevice, which is
currently not packaged in Debian.

I'm retitling this bug accordingly. Right now I'm not keen on adding another
package to the istuff umbrella because I'm already struggling with the current
state.

Regards,
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Yves-Alexis
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