On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Vladimir Nadvornik <nadvornik@suse.cz> wrote:
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.
I have cdrtools installed to test with brasero and i have no problems with this.
But it should be possible to have cdrtools in Factory, in parallel to cdrkit. The license issues are IMHO solvable.
Yeah this would be awesome at least we can choose between the maintained and unmaintained.
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.
I can give some help on this but i would like to have cdrtools on O:F because it fixes lot's of bugs on cdrkit and has new modern features that newer burners support. Luis -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org