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Upstream-Name: abduco
Upstream-Contact: Marc André Tanner <mat@brain-dump.org>
Source: https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/abduco/
Comment:
abduco was previously in Debian (0.1-1, 0.1-2; 2014-2016) and was
removed in May 2016 after Debian bug #771102, where Ned T. Crigler
(dtach upstream) reported that abduco's packet protocol and keyboard
suspend-handling code at the time appeared to be derived from dtach
0.8 (GPL-2+) rather than original ISC-licensed work.
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Comparing abduco 0.6 (this upload) against dtach 0.8 the loci
Crigler highlighted have been substantively modified or removed
since the 2014 report:
* the packet struct now uses unsigned int / size_t fields and a
BUFSIZ-sized buffer (rather than dtach's unsigned char + sizeof
(struct winsize));
* the VSUSP / SIGTSTP suspend dance and the "\033[999H" EOS escape
constant have been removed from the keyboard input handler;
* signal installation uses sigaction(2) rather than signal(2);
* the architecture is now multi-client (Server with a linked list
of Clients, vs dtach's single-attached-client model).
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What remains shared with dtach is the wire-protocol message-type
enum values (0..4: push/content, attach, detach, winch/resize,
redraw) and the overall packet shape ({ type; len; union { buf;
winsize; ... } }). These are functional protocol elements rather
than expressive code.
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abduco upstream's README explicitly cites dtach as prior art ("abduco
is in many ways very similar to dtach", plus an "Improvements over
dtach" section), and a historical upstream commit (4fdb48d) is titled
"Change default key bindings to match dtach".
Files: *
Copyright: 2013-2016 Marc André Tanner <mat@brain-dump.org>
License: ISC
Files: forkpty-aix.c
Copyright: 2009 Nicholas Marriott <nicm@users.sourceforge.net>
2012 Ross Palmer Mohn <rpmohn@waxandwane.org>
License: ISC
Files: forkpty-sunos.c
Copyright: 2008 Nicholas Marriott <nicm@users.sourceforge.net>
License: ISC
Files: debian/*
Copyright: 2026 Jayen Ashar <jayen@jayenashar.org>
License: ISC
License: ISC
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