Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (507 mails)

[Vladimir Nadvornik <nadvornik@xxxxxxx>]

On čt 2. července 2009, Luis Medinas wrote:
> Hi
>
> Back in the day that all major distros switched to cdrkit (fork from
> cdrtools) i was one of the maintainers (at the time maintainer on Gentoo
> Linux) that made a decision to ship cdrkit by default and start porting
> applications to cdrkit (brasero and ncb). This decision was mainly to
> follow every distros at the time and get all maintainers together since
> cdrtools switched license and debian maintainers questioned this
> problem[1]. Now days cdrkit development is almost dead[2] and this piece
> of software is full of bugs that noone wants to fix. As a solution i
> propose to review cdrtools license (Sun says it's ok) and replace cdrkit
> by cdrtools on O:F. Joerg (cdrtools author and maintainer) seems much
> more friendly now days and very responsive to the bugs.
> We also have recent packages available on home:/hennichodernich/
>
> Can we consider this ?

AFAIK cdrtools still have some problems that were solved in cdrkit:
- acessing the device via /dev/sg vs. /dev/sr  
  https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=226019

- burning without root or suid

and AFAIK there is no chance to have this fixed in upstream and
having separate suse patches was against Joerg's GPL.

But it should be possible to have cdrtools in Factory, in parallel to cdrkit. 
The license issues are IMHO solvable.

> Also i would like to see libburn on O:F but since it's on X11:XFCE with
> the opening of Factory this package will be merged there am i right ?
>
>
> 1- http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/linux-dist.html
> 2- http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debburn-changes/


BTW, I am looking for new maintainer for the burning sw (cdrkit, dvd+rw-tools, 
cdrdao, ...) because I am changing the possition in Novell and I probably 
won't have time to work on this.

Vladimir
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