Source: libisoburn Version: 1.3.2-1 Severity: wishlist There are many packages which depend on wodim/genisoimage in Debian.
I think it is good idea to offer smooth system interface to choose their back-end program with update-alternatives. Just to indicate my experimental set up here, I attach patch to libisoburn. The metapackage for wodim-cdrskin may be better moved to cdrskin package. Maybe, these do not need to be separate packages but can be included in respective xorriso, xorrisofs, and cdrskin packages. I also wonder if wodim/genisoimage also can implement update-alternative similar to what I proposed for libisoburn. Until then, this patch cause collision with them. So coordination with them will be nice. (With versioned Break, I think it can be done.) As I understand, except for HFS+ hybrid CD generation, xorriso seems to be quite useful by now. So update-alternatives priority should be something along: cdrskin=20 xorriso=10 wodim=5 xorrisofs=10 genisoimage=5 Please consider. Osamu ======================================================================= I saw few related bugs which can be solved by above approach: * http://bugs.debian.org/519200 : k3b: Should recognize cdrskin as cdrecord (it's compatible) * http://bugs.debian.org/523814 [makecd] please use cdrskin (not wodim) and xorriso (not genisofs) ... Below is the dependencies related to wodim or genisoimage. $ ben query '.depends ~ /wodim|genisoimage/ |.recommends ~ /wodim|genisoimage/' Packages_amd64 |grep ^Package -|sort|uniq Parsing Packages_amd64... Package: acetoneiso Package: aptoncd Package: bashburn Package: bootcd Package: brasero-cdrkit Package: burn Package: cdbackup Package: cdw Package: cedar-backup2 Package: debian-cd Package: devede Package: dvd+rw-tools Package: fai-quickstart Package: grml2usb Package: initramfs-tools-tcos Package: k3b Package: kdenlive Package: mic2 Package: movixmaker-2 Package: mp3burn Package: mp3roaster Package: opennebula Package: ubuntu-dev-tools Package: wodim Since compatibility of these aliases offered by xorriso are not perfect, upstreams may be slow to adopt xorriso based solution. Offering option to users by using update-alternatives seems to be reasonable. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
diff -Nru libisoburn-1.3.2-orig/debian/changelog libisoburn-1.3.2/debian/changelog --- libisoburn-1.3.2-orig/debian/changelog 2013-09-08 22:47:24.000000000 +0900 +++ libisoburn-1.3.2/debian/changelog 2013-12-23 17:12:02.000000000 +0900 @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +libisoburn (1.3.2-1.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Add packages to provide wodim amd genisoimage aliases. + (This needs to be coordinated with wodim and genisoimage package) + + -- Osamu Aoki <os...@debian.org> Mon, 23 Dec 2013 17:10:53 +0900 + libisoburn (1.3.2-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release (Closes: #709561) diff -Nru libisoburn-1.3.2-orig/debian/control libisoburn-1.3.2/debian/control --- libisoburn-1.3.2-orig/debian/control 2013-09-08 22:47:24.000000000 +0900 +++ libisoburn-1.3.2/debian/control 2013-12-23 17:29:18.000000000 +0900 @@ -107,3 +107,49 @@ xorriso source code comes with a release engineering test-suite called `releng', which aims to cover most of the functionality of the xorriso and the underlying libraries of libburn, libisofs, and libisoburn. + +Package: wodim-xorriso +Architecture: all +Section: otherosfs +Depends: ${misc:Depends}, xorriso +Provides: wodim +Description: plugin emulation for the wodim program using xorriso + wodim-xorriso metapackage privides the alias wodim using the xorriso + command to enable other programs to migrate smoothly away from the wodim + package. + . + Supported optical media types: + - CD-R, CD-RW + - DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM + - BD-R, BD-RE + . + The wodim-cdrskin package privides the alias wodim using the cdrskin + command and may provide even better compatibility. + +Package: wodim-cdrskin +Architecture: all +Section: otherosfs +Depends: ${misc:Depends}, cdrskin +Provides: wodim +Description: plugin emulation for the wodim program using cdrskin + wodim-cdrskin metapackage privides the alias wodim using the cdrskin + command to enable other programs to migrate smoothly away from the wodim + package. + . + Supported optical media types: + - CD-R, CD-RW + - DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM + - BD-R, BD-RE + . + The wodim-xorriso package also privides the alias wodim using the xorriso + command. + +Package: genisoimage-xorriso +Architecture: all +Section: otherosfs +Depends: ${misc:Depends}, xorriso +Provides: genisoimage +Description: plugin emulation for the genisoimage program using xorriso + genisoimage-xorriso metapackage privides the alias genisoimage using the + xorriso command to enable other programs to migrate smoothly away from the + genisoimage package. diff -Nru libisoburn-1.3.2-orig/debian/genisoimage-xorriso.postinst libisoburn-1.3.2/debian/genisoimage-xorriso.postinst --- libisoburn-1.3.2-orig/debian/genisoimage-xorriso.postinst 1970-01-01 09:00:00.000000000 +0900 +++ libisoburn-1.3.2/debian/genisoimage-xorriso.postinst 2013-12-23 17:18:40.000000000 +0900 @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +#!/bin/sh +# postinst script for genisoimage-xorriso +# +# see: dh_installdeb(1) +set -e + +update-alternatives --quiet \ + --install /usr/bin/genisoimage genisoimage /usr/bin/xorriso 20 \ + --slave /usr/share/man/man1/genisoimage.1.gz genisoimage.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/xorriso.1.gz \ + +# dh_installdeb will replace this with shell code automatically +# generated by other debhelper scripts. + +#DEBHELPER# + +exit 0 diff -Nru libisoburn-1.3.2-orig/debian/genisoimage-xorriso.prerm libisoburn-1.3.2/debian/genisoimage-xorriso.prerm --- libisoburn-1.3.2-orig/debian/genisoimage-xorriso.prerm 1970-01-01 09:00:00.000000000 +0900 +++ libisoburn-1.3.2/debian/genisoimage-xorriso.prerm 2013-12-23 17:06:03.000000000 +0900 @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +#!/bin/sh + +set -e + +if [ "$1" != "upgrade" ]; then + update-alternatives --remove genisoimage /usr/bin/xorriso +fi + +#DEBHELPER# diff -Nru libisoburn-1.3.2-orig/debian/wodim-cdrskin.postinst libisoburn-1.3.2/debian/wodim-cdrskin.postinst --- libisoburn-1.3.2-orig/debian/wodim-cdrskin.postinst 1970-01-01 09:00:00.000000000 +0900 +++ libisoburn-1.3.2/debian/wodim-cdrskin.postinst 2013-12-23 17:18:55.000000000 +0900 @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +#!/bin/sh +# postinst script for wodim-cdrskin +# +# see: dh_installdeb(1) +set -e + +update-alternatives --quiet \ + --install /usr/bin/wodim wodim /usr/bin/cdrskin 20 \ + --slave /usr/share/man/man1/wodim.1.gz wodim.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/cdrskin.1.gz \ + +# dh_installdeb will replace this with shell code automatically +# generated by other debhelper scripts. + +#DEBHELPER# + +exit 0 diff -Nru libisoburn-1.3.2-orig/debian/wodim-cdrskin.prerm libisoburn-1.3.2/debian/wodim-cdrskin.prerm --- libisoburn-1.3.2-orig/debian/wodim-cdrskin.prerm 1970-01-01 09:00:00.000000000 +0900 +++ libisoburn-1.3.2/debian/wodim-cdrskin.prerm 2013-12-23 17:04:33.000000000 +0900 @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +#!/bin/sh + +set -e + +if [ "$1" != "upgrade" ]; then + update-alternatives --remove wodim /usr/bin/cdrskin +fi + +#DEBHELPER# diff -Nru libisoburn-1.3.2-orig/debian/wodim-xorriso.postinst libisoburn-1.3.2/debian/wodim-xorriso.postinst --- libisoburn-1.3.2-orig/debian/wodim-xorriso.postinst 1970-01-01 09:00:00.000000000 +0900 +++ libisoburn-1.3.2/debian/wodim-xorriso.postinst 2013-12-23 17:19:06.000000000 +0900 @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +#!/bin/sh +# postinst script for wodim-xorriso +# +# see: dh_installdeb(1) +set -e + +update-alternatives --quiet \ + --install /usr/bin/wodim wodim /usr/bin/xorriso 10 \ + --slave /usr/share/man/man1/wodim.1.gz wodim.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/xorriso.1.gz \ + +# dh_installdeb will replace this with shell code automatically +# generated by other debhelper scripts. + +#DEBHELPER# + +exit 0 diff -Nru libisoburn-1.3.2-orig/debian/wodim-xorriso.prerm libisoburn-1.3.2/debian/wodim-xorriso.prerm --- libisoburn-1.3.2-orig/debian/wodim-xorriso.prerm 1970-01-01 09:00:00.000000000 +0900 +++ libisoburn-1.3.2/debian/wodim-xorriso.prerm 2013-12-23 17:04:41.000000000 +0900 @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +#!/bin/sh + +set -e + +if [ "$1" != "upgrade" ]; then + update-alternatives --remove wodim /usr/bin/xorriso +fi + +#DEBHELPER#