Bug#496594: brasero: doesn't find DVD media

[Steve Greenland]

On 26-Aug-08, 07:57 (CDT), Sven Arvidsson <sa at whiz.se> wrote: 
> > Versions of packages brasero recommends:
> > pn  gnome-mount                   <none>     (no description available)
> > pn  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad     <none>     (no description available)
> > ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good    0.10.8-4   GStreamer plugins from the "good" 
> > pn  hal                           <none>     (no description available)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm pretty sure brasero requires hal to be installed and running to be
> able to detect blank media in your writer.

Yep, that seems to work.

Anyone want to explain why brasero doesn't depend on hal? It did bring
in libhal-storage1, FWIW.

Steve