[2017-01-21 00:39:52 +0100] Jan de Groot: > Since we're dropping dead packages, I have one package remaining on the > "missing sources" todo list: cdrkit. > > Given the fact that Debian has forked an old cdrtools release, applied > some patches and then abandoned the project completely, I would like to > remove it and replace it with the original software which is still > developed.
Sounds good to me. > cdrtools is already in community, so it only needs a move to extra. > It's already a drop-in replacement for cdrkit, so we can handle the > dependencies later. > > Last note: only thing that keeps me from moving this right now is the > maintenance. The current maintainer in community has maintained this > package for 5 years with regular updates and does a good job > maintaining his packages. It would be nice if he could continue > maintaining the package, but I think it's good to have mkisofs and > cdrecord in extra instead of community. Any thoughts about this? It really makes no difference if mkisofs and cdrecord (or most packages for that matter) are in [community] rather than [extra]. Cheers. -- Gaetan
