Bug#602149: brasero: It should be possible to directly burn bz2/gz/7z iso image

[Witold Baryluk]

Package: brasero
Version: 2.30.3-1
Severity: wishlist

Hi.

Iso images are often compressed using bzip2 or gzip2 (without tar).
Many times it do not compress well, but each byte is crucial when distributing
such big files,
so it is common to see compressed iso images.
(most linux distro do not do this, becuase packages are already compressed
well).

I.e. I wanted to burn dragonfly 2.8.2 and it is distributed as iso.bz2. Why I
need to extract iso from it,
if I could perform this on the fly.

It would be usefull to have direct bz2 (and possibly other formats) read
support in brasero.
(Only problem I see is size estimation of, but this can be easly calculated
from iso metadata right?)

Thanks.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to pl_PL.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages brasero depends on:
ii  brasero-common              2.30.3-1     Common files for the Brasero CD bu
ii  gnome-icon-theme            2.30.3-1     GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-base  0.10.30-1    GStreamer plugins from the "base" 
ii  gvfs                        1.6.4-2      userspace virtual filesystem - ser
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.30.0-1     The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbrasero-media0           2.30.3-1     CD/DVD burning library for GNOME -
ii  libc6                       2.11.2-7     Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2                   1.8.10-6     The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.2.24-3     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.88-2       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1              2.8.0-2.1    generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6                2.4.2-2      FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.28.1-5     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.24.2-1     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base0. 0.10.30-1    GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0          0.10.30-1    Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.20.1-2     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                     2:1.0.6-2    X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnautilus-extension1      2.30.1-2     libraries for nautilus components 
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.28.3-1     Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                      2:1.1.1-1    X11 Session Management library
ii  libtotem-plparser17         2.30.3-1     Totem Playlist Parser library - ru
ii  libtracker-client-0.8-0     0.8.17-1     metadata database, indexer and sea
ii  libunique-1.0-0             1.1.6-1.1    Library for writing single instanc
ii  libxml2                     2.7.7.dfsg-4 GNOME XML library

brasero recommends no packages.

Versions of packages brasero suggests:
ii  libdvdcss2                    1.2.10-0.3 Simple foundation for reading DVDs
pn  vcdimager                     <none>     (no description available)

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