Bug#374685: nautilus-cd-burner: fails to call cdrecord properly

[Joerg Schilling]

Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:

> > ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/
> > 
> > A cdrecord from the original source includes a proper workaround for the
> > incompatible interface changes from Linux-2.6.8.1.
> > 
> > Note that the official cdrecord version contains the official DVD writing 
> > support and not the broken code offered by Debian and others.
>
> Joerg, we are not going to include this version, and we are not going to
> make nautilus-cd-burner use cdrecord instead of dvd+rw-tools. I thought
> this would already be clear. Please stop annoying our users with
> suggestions that have nothing to do with the topic.
>
> As Anand is able to write a CD using the cdrecord command line
> interface, it is obvious the cdrecord version in Debian is not causing
> the problem, which lies in nautilus-cd-burner itself.

If you do not read the mails from your users, you are annoying your users.

If you did read the mail from the OP, you would know that cdrecord was not
running as root or suid root at least in one example. Note that cdrecord
_needs_ root privilleges in order work correctly.

I did receive enough reports from frustrated Debian users (including the 
k3b authors) to know that there _is_ a problem with the Debian variant of 
cdrecord that prevents it working properly. This problem is not present in the 
original version of cdrecord.

Jörg

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