replacing the Startup Disk Creator

[NikTh]

On 18/09/2015 02:34 μμ, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> 
> I disagree. The incredibly long list of Unetbootin bugs leads me to believe it's
> in a worse state than Startup Disk Creator:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/unetbootin/+bugs?orderby=-id&start=0
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unetbootin/+bugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-id&start=0
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=unetbootin
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775689


I agree with your disagreement. I consider Unetbootin almost a
deprecated project. It's not in a good state as regards UEFI systems and
has more bugs than fixes.


> I have no objection to replacing Startup Disk Creator with something better, but
> the replacement would need to at least adhere to the following criteria:
> 
> 1- Support UEFI
> 2- Be easy to use (including user testing)
> 3- Use a modern secure design (backend service that does the minimum privileged
> operations, frontend that supports multiple toolkits, communication over dbus
> and policykit integration)
> 4- Support udisks for proper hardware integration
> 5- Be reliable
> 6- Be written in a language that is maintainable
> 7- Be of quality enough to pass a MIR (Main inclusion request)
> 8- Have developers who are willing to commit to supporting it in the Ubuntu
> archive, and for the duration of the LTS releases
> 

I cannot remove or add anything to that list.
Completely agree.