[Pkg-opt-media-team] Bug#565874: Recommends still installs genisoimage by default

[Rogério Brito]

Hi, Joss and other people.

On Nov 06 2010, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le samedi 06 novembre 2010 à 16:46 -0200, Rogério Brito a écrit : 
> > OK. Let me just refresh my mind: your purpose is to throw away
> > genisoimage/mkisofs and siblings (i.e., kill the cdrkit stuff),
> > right?
> 
> Precisely. This is the last missing piece to have a completely
> Schilling-free default installation.

Great.

Not only that, but having fewer dependencies, leaner packages etc. would
be a good thing, especially for those that want to install Debian in
some constrained space (I do) and/or create/use live CDs (a lot of
future Debian users).

> > In this growisofs package you want just growisofs and dvd+rw-format
> > and nothing else, right?
> 
> Yes, exactly.

Perfect. I'm modifying the package as we speak to take your requested
changes into account.

> > > How does that sound?
> > 
> > That sounds perfectly fine with me, apart from having to go through
> > the NEW queue at this stage. Should I use any higher priority for
> > the purpose of getting this into testing?
> 
> I don’t think it’s a matter of priority, but of having the release team
> agree with this change.
> 
> Which is why I’m CCing them to get their opinion on this change.

I am confident that they see that this is a change for the better.

I can upload a first cut to experimental to ask people to install, test,
give feedback and upload another version to unstable, if they so desire.
Heck, I am all for leaner packages and finer granularity. :-)


Regards,

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