Blu-ray recording support

[Federico]

Hi.
I'd like to make a suggestion regarding Ubuntu's current state of Blu-ray
burning support.

First of all, let me say I'm aware that in 2008 Ubuntu decided to use
cdrkit over cdrecord. I don't want to change that. *What I'd like to
suggest is that at the very least we add cdrecord to either universe or
multiverse.*

The reason is I feel we are failing to our users regarding Blu-ray burning
support. There are lots of bugs in the Ubuntu tools and their default
configurations (crdkit, k3b and brasero) that simply mean Ubuntu does not
support Blu-ray burning by default. Launchpad bugs regarding that matter
are getting nowhere.

   *Bug* *Status* *Heat*  484479 Confirmed 10  600770 Confirmed 20  600871
New 6  600898 New 6  637358 Confirmed 14  637379 Confirmed 26  664074
Confirmed 14  678294 New 6  788322 Confirmed 34  1084318 Confirmed 6
1113679 Fix Released 22  1424215 Confirmed 6
Users are just left there wasting time and optical media with the default
burning tools until they go online to find this workaround

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CdDvd/Burning#Blu-Ray_Burning

which relies on Brandon Snaider's PPA.
Launchpad statistics show the latest cdrecord version in that ppa has 1,393
downloads just for trusty.

    *Ubuntu version* *cdrecord version* *i386* *amd64* *Total*  utopic
10:3.01a24-0ubuntu1~utopic~cdrtoolsppa2 21 160 181  trusty
10:3.01a24-0ubuntu1~trusty~cdrtoolsppa2 264 1129 1393  precise
10:3.01a24-0ubuntu1~precise~cdrtoolsppa2 196 490 686  saucy
10:3.01a22-0ubuntu1~saucy~cdrtoolsppa4 110 420 530  raring
10:3.01a22-0ubuntu1~raring~cdrtoolsppa4 57 150 207  quantal
10:3.01a22-0ubuntu1~quantal~cdrtoolsppa4 26 48 74  oneiric
10:3.00-0ubuntu1~oneiric~cdrtoolsppa1 228 304 532  natty
10:3.00-0ubuntu1~natty~cdrtoolsppa1 220 220 440  maverick
10:3.00-0ubuntu1~maverick~cdrtoolsppa1 183 129 312
So people are fixing the problem on their own. The way we currently deal
with users trying to burn Blu-ray is really bad. We should either close all
those bugs as wontfix or close them as fixed and point them to the
workaround. We are acting as if we could realistically expect cdrkit to fix
any of those bugs. The latest cdrkit release was in 2010 and dvd+rw-tools
7.1 is from 2008.

*I think we should have cdrecord in the repos in case that PPA is no longer
available or updated, but also as the only realistic way we can claim
Blu-ray burning support.*

What do you think?
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