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=20xorriso=10 wodim=5
xorrisofs=10 genisoimage=5
Please consider.
Osamu
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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 22:47:24.0 +0900
+++ libisoburn-1.3.2/debian/changelog 2013-12-23 17:12:02.0 +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 22:47:24.0 +0900
+++ libisoburn-1.3.2/debian/control 2013-12-23 17:29:18.0 +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
