On 22/11/2025 10:24, Max Nikulin wrote:
Jörg Schilling died in 2021. The project is currently hosted at
<https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools/>
It seems, development is not really active, but there are some recent
commits.
I have received off-list a message from Friedhelm Mehnert suggesting
unofficial cdrtools builds that include packages for Debian. Since there
was a thread on problems with posting to the list and Debian cdrkit
package currently has no maintainer, I decided partially cite the
message below.
I have not audited the packages, so if you are going to use them, do it
on your own risk. It is up to you to evaluate degree of trust and
whether you may be bitten by licensing issues.
Do not forget about
<https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian>
"Advice For New Users On Not Breaking Their Debian System"
and make a note to review apt sources before upgrade to next release.
These repositories should not be confused with SUSE-only repositories
<https://software.opensuse.org/package/cdrecord>.
While Debian and SUSE teams provide granular cdrecord/wodim,
mkisofs/genisoimage, cdda2wav/icedax packages, Friedhelm created a
single bundle. It "provides" and "conflicts" wodim, genisoimage, icedax.
There is no "provides" for cdrecord, mkisofs, cdda2wav, but currently it
should not be an issue since Debian packages do not use original tool
names as alternatives in "depends" and "recommends" fields.
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: cdrecord
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:04:51 +0100
From: Friedhelm Mehnert <[email protected]>
[...]
There are current maintained packets for debian, ubuntu and a few other
distributions based on the above repository available here:
<https://software.opensuse.org/package/cdrtools>
They are designed to replace the buggy "wodim stuff" and should work as
a replacement with several "wrappers".
Just to be complete; the reason why the cdrtools are not in debian is
not a license issue, but rather a personal war between some debian
developers and Jörg Schilling.
