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

Juergen Weigert <[email protected]> Wed, 8 Jun 2011 17:51:46 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.multimedia
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jun 08, 11 12:03:11 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > OpenSUSE have silently dropped cdrtools from base:system. Jorge Schilling 

Thanks for raising this. How stupid!

> Base:System was just cleaned from non-opensuse factory related packages,
> cdrtools could have stayed.

Both wodim and cdrtools now have a new home in multimedia:apps.
The cleanup of base:system makes sense, and dvd-writers are not exactly at
the base of the system.

> > was involved in a dispute with a debian packager and somehow, most probably 
> > where the egos come in, this blew up into a dispute with all the major 
> > distributions. I'm of a very strong opinion that users shouldn't suffer 
> > because of politics but I need bug reports to get my point through about 
> > cdrtools. 

True (if you put egos and politics in the same bucket).
Dropping it is no option.  Moving it is much more appropriate.

        cheers,
                JW-

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