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abduco 0.6-1

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Descriptionlightweight session attach/detach manager

abduco provides session management i.e. it allows programs to be run independently from their controlling terminal. That is, programs can be detached - run in the background - and then later reattached.

Together with dvtm it provides a simpler and cleaner alternative to tmux or screen. abduco can also be used as a stand-alone replacement for dtach.

MaintainerJayen Ashar <debian@jayenashar.org>
Changed ByJayen Ashar <debian@jayenashar.org>
Sponsortille@debian.org
Distributionunstable
Architectureany
VCSgit: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/abduco.git (browse)
Closes#900387
Trackerhttps://tracker.debian.org/pkg/abduco
Uploaded4 hours ago

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.changes
Sourceabduco
Version0.6-1
Changed-ByJayen Ashar
Architecturesource amd64
Distributionunstable
DateTue, 09 Jun 2026 19:09:21 +1000
Changelog
abduco (0.6-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Initial release (Closes: #900387).
     Reintroduces abduco, removed in 2016 over Bug #771102 (alleged dtach
     code reuse); see d/copyright for how the flagged loci have been
     rewritten or removed in abduco 0.6 and what remains shared.
   * d/rules: enable hardening=+all (adds bindnow), pulling the flags in via
     /usr/share/dpkg/buildflags.mk so the maint option is actually honoured;
     a direct $(shell dpkg-buildflags ...) did not see it and dropped bindnow.
   * d/control: drop comma-without-space synopsis (lintian
     odd-mark-in-description).
   * d/copyright: document the 2016 removal over Bug #771102 (alleged dtach
     code reuse), and how the loci flagged then have been substantively
     rewritten or removed in abduco 0.6 (packet struct field widths and
     buffer size, VSUSP / SIGTSTP suspend dance, "\033[999H" EOS constant,
     sigaction vs signal, multi-client server). Notes what remains shared
     (wire-protocol enum values, overall packet shape) and points at
     upstream's README acknowledgement of dtach as prior art.
   * d/copyright: use the full real name on the debian/* copyright line to
     match the Maintainer field.
   * d/control: point Vcs-* at salsa.debian.org/debian/abduco
     (the Debian-namespace packaging repo).
   * d/control: use a dedicated maintainer address (debian@jayenashar.org)
     to limit address harvesting from the published archive indices.
   * d/patches: add verbose-build.patch so the upstream Makefile prints the
     real compile/link commands; blhc reported NONVERBOSE BUILD and failed
     the Salsa CI hardening job.
.dsc
Sectionadmin
Priorityoptional
Componentmain
Package-Listabduco deb admin optional arch=any
debian/copyright
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
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.
 .
 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).
 .
 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.
 .
 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

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