Re: ! k3b do not allow any more burning blu-ray with original cdrecord

On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 11:53:43AM +0200, Dave Plater wrote:
> On 06/08/2011 09:40 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> >On Tuesday 07 June 2011 08:52:50 pm jdd wrote:
> >>Le 07/06/2011 23:46, jdd a =E9crit :
> >>>I used your last k3b
> >>
> >>and it was that who did the trick. I reinstalled the pm one and I'm
> >>back to growisofs.
> >>
> >>so I think you can push your version to pm
> >>
> >>thanks
> >>jdd
> >>
> >>
> >>--
> >>http://www.dodin.net
> >>http://www.youtube.com/user/jdddodinorg
> >>http://jdd.blip.tv/
> >
> >this might be a bit off topic, perhaps not, but, if i recall correctly=
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> >Jorge
> >Schilling  is the original creator of cdrecord, and, somehow he found=20
> >himself
> >in disfavor with the rest of the linucs world, something about ego / r=
ights
> >and/or something about the open licensing standard and so on.  This wa=
s a
> >while ago, and i sincerely hope things got patched between Jorge and t=
he
> >community, his code seemed to always work while wodim and other script=
s
> >floundered numerous times in the past 3-4 years...
> >d.
> OpenSUSE have silently dropped cdrtools from base:system. Jorge Schilli=
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Base:System was just cleaned from non-opensuse factory related packages,
cdrtools could have stayed.

> was involved in a dispute with a debian packager and somehow, most prob=
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> where the egos come in, this blew up into a dispute with all the major=20
> distributions. I'm of a very strong opinion that users shouldn't suffer=
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> because of politics but I need bug reports to get my point through abou=
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> cdrtools. I want to push it to Packman but the powers that be have=20
> effectively blocked that by requesting it be parallel installable with=20
> wodim which unfortunately isn't possible.
> Growisofs is also redundant IMHO it's totally unmaintained since 2008 a=
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> jdd's experience confirms that something is not right.
> Bug reports will help, please add [email protected] as a cc. I can =
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> cdrtools in multimedia but I've already upset one senior factory mainta=
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> somehow resulting in slv2, LV2 plugin support, being blocked since the =
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> of Feb so I have to toe the line.

? I doubt this slv2 story.

Ciao, Marcus