ddrescue (not dd-rescue, mind the dash) is marked unstable without any reason specified in the changelog. Version 1.3 worked perfectly, that's now removed and no stable alternative exists anymore. Of course, if I've missed a sentence in the Changelog please say so. Thanks! Reproducible: Always emerge --info Portage 2.1.3.19 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz Timestamp of tree: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:46:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r3, 2.4.4-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.10-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/service" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe" DISTDIR="/var/tmp/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org/ http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.gentoo.skynet.be/pub/gentoo/ http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo" LINGUAS="en nl es en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/var/tmp/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.be.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib accessibility acct acl acpi additions alsa amr aotuv apache2 arts audiofile avahi bash-completion beagle berkdb bitmap-fonts bl bluetooth browserplugin bzip2 cairo caps cdio cdparanoia cdr cgi chroot cli cracklib crypt css ctype cups curl daap dba dbus dell directfb divx divx4linux dri dvd dvdr dvdread emboss emf enblend enca encode exif expat extras fam fastcgi fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gcj gd gdbm gif gimp glut gmp gnutls gphoto2 gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk hal howl-compat iconv idn ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib ipod ipv6 irmc isdnlog jabber java javacomm jingle jpeg jpeg2k kde kdepim kerberos kqemu lame lcms ldap live logrotate lzo mad matroska mbox mhash midi mikmod mmx mmxext mng mono mozbranding mozsha1 mozsvg mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap multiuser musicbrainz mysql ncurses nls nodrm nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs nvidia ogg ole openal openexr opengl openmp openvpn oss pam pcmcia pcre pdf perl php plotutils plugin png postgres ppds pppd python qemu-fast qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline real realmedia reflection reiserfs rss ruby samba sasl sdl session sift skey skins slp softmmu spell spl sse sse2 ssl suhosin svg svga svgz tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode upnp urandom usb vboxbfe vcd visualization vlm vorbis vram wifi win32codecs wireshark wma wmf wmp wxwindows x264 x86 xanim xattr xforms xine xinerama xml xml2 xorg xosd xscreensaver xsl xslt xv xvid zeroconf zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="all" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en nl es en_GB" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa fbdev" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Marked 1.5 stable, anyway i didn't remove 1.3.
