[Bug 213215] Re: Please include original cdrecord (cdrtools) package in Ubuntu

[Clement Lefebvre]

Well, I had a conversation with Schily. As far as the political/social
aspects go, I'm satisfied with his explanations and I strongly feel he
needs our support. As much as possible, we should push to get the
original cdrecord, mkisofs, cdda2wav... into Debian.

I'm still not at ease with the technical side of things and I don't
fully comprehend the extent of the problem.. how wide it is, how many
packages it affects and how many use cases can be impacted by possible
regressions.

I need to know more about Brasero, libburn etc.. so I'm hoping we'll
have another chat about these.

The status of packages like "wodim" (aka cdrecord), "genisoimage" (aka
mkisofs), "icedax" (aka cdda2wav), who are not only based on the 2004
codebase of the tools they renamed, but apparently filled with patches
the original developer finds buggy ... these, in my opinion, need to be
dropped.

I'll be happy to talk about this on the Debian derivatives mailing list
in an effort to get Debian to tackle the problem upstream, so it can
flow downstream towards LMDE, Debian derivatives, Ubuntu and Linux Mint.

If we don't get anything done upstream, we'll need to assess how this
would affect compatibility and maintenance for us. At the very least we
could maintain Jorg's current codebase and make it easier for Mint/LMDE
users to switch to it.

So in brief, I can't guarantee anything yet, but I can confirm the
problem and the fact that this needs a solution.

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