Hi! In Debian repository there is for a long time package udftools which contains some tools for UDF filesystem and for historic reasons also pktsetup tool.
pktsetup tool configures mapping of optical discs and packet writing devices and is basically userspace configuration tool for kernel module pktcdvd.ko (which implement packet writing). Debian udftools package contains also Debian specific init script which at system startup calls pktsetup for available cd/dvd devices. In new upcoming upstream release of udftools there would be udev rule which automatically calls pktsetup when optical mechanic is attached or detached and therefore fully replace Debian specific init script. UDF as filesystem is best known as filesystem for DVD and BD discs, but is universal and can be used also on hard disk or usb flash disks... And What do you think about moving pktsetup into own binary package? Users who do not need packet writing configuration and only need tools for UDF filesystem would install only udftools package. Also what to do with Debian specific init script? Currently init script has configuration where user can enable it or disable it. And needs to specify all available optical mechanics (in most cases it is /dev/cdrom, now with new kernels it is /dev/sr0). Udev rule file cannot be configured by its nature, but is automatic and manage also optical mechanics on hotplug, not only on system startup as init script. I think it could make sense to remove init script and replace it by new udev rule and move both (udev rule and pktsetup) into own binary package pktsetup. But such thing probably needs more discussion or announcement in changelog... etc... as existing system configurations needs to be updated. -- Pali Rohár pali.ro...@gmail.com