Bug#982221: k3b: please stop using cdrkit

2021-02-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi,

i am the developer of libburnia, including cdrskin and xorriso.
Feel free to ask for advise about how to use their features to achieve
what K3B needs.

I have to warn, though, that UDF is not supported by libisofs.
Besides the fact that some smaller operating systems cannot deal with
files of isoze >= 4 GiB in ISO 9660, there is the bigger obstacle that
DVD video mastering needs UDF, as provided by genisoimage and mkisofs.

(Another reason to keep genisiomage alive is HFS production for booting
old powerpc machines.)

wodim is inferior to libburn in respect to data recording on DVD and BD
media. But on CD it is able to burn CD-XA and some more exotic modes like
"RAW". CD-XA is a format similar to CD-ROM with some extra bytes settable
by the user. Although Joliet specifies it for multi-session (and the kernel
shows traces of an old disabled demand for it), i am not aware of any use
case where it cannot be replaced by CD-ROM, the usual data format of CD
and of all DVD and BD media.
"RAW is needed for cloning CDs with strange sectors, e.g. of copy-protected
disks.
libburn will quite surely not support CD-XA and RAW in future.

So decommissioning wodim is ok if we do not strive for cloning.
But decommissioning genisoimage will leave a noticable gap.
Where is the discussion happening about cdrkit's demise ?


Have a nice day :)

Thomas



Bug#982221: k3b: please stop using cdrkit

2021-02-10 Thread Sandro Knauß
Hey,

Upstream k3b is searching for new maintainers, k3b is currently only in low 
level bugfixing and such a big change like switching away from cdrkit is out of 
scrope [1]. And it is too much work for the current Debian maintainers. Any 
help is welcomed.

The discussion started, as Debian won't ship cdrkit ( wodim and genisoimage) 
anymore in bookworm [#982221].

hefee

[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432684
[#982221] https://bugs.debian.org/982221

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On Sonntag, 7. Februar 2021 16:27:19 CET Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> Package: k3b
> Version: 20.12.2-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear k3b Maintainers,
> 
> your package depends on wodim and genisoimage, both built from
> cdrkit sources. cdrkit does not have a path forward, please switch
> away from it rather soon. I'm told xorriso and libburnia are
> alternatives and are alive and doing well.
> 
> It's been suggested cdrkit should not be in bookworm.
> 
> Chris



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