[Pkg-opt-media-team] Bug#598275: Bug#598275: dvdisaster harms my system

[Rogério Brito]

Hi, All.

On Nov 01 2010, Carsten Gnoerlich wrote:
> I have just released version 0.72.2.

Just as a side note, I have just released a package of 0.79.2 to the
experimental distribution of Debian.

I don't know why, but I read what you wrote above as if the recommended
version would be the 0.79 branch. Most proabably I got confused.

Anyway, Carsten, the debian tree is at 

    http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-opt-media/dvdisaster.git

and I have some patches at

    http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-opt-media/dvdisaster.git;a=tree;f=debian/patches;h=947b65

that apply cleanly to the 0.79 branch. Perhaps you might want to
incorporate some of those. Yes, there are some patches there that I told
you about in an earlier e-mail, but there are some updated versions of
others.

> Probing for driver compatibility is tricky, but this
> version should pick the right one automatically under
> most circumstances.

OK. I think that I can prepare a package of that, but it would be easier
for the purposes of Debian if I uploaded another one to the experimental
distribution with the version greater than 0.79 (otherwise I may have to
introduce what we call an epoch, and that's a nasty artificial thing).

> From investigating this issue I also decided that I'd like to make the
> currently optional SG_IO ioctl the default in dvdisaster 0.79.3 and
> beyond. The CDROM_SEND_PACKET driver seems to get less attention in
> the current kernel development (as we have experienced with Stephans
> configuration), and I see no technical reasons hinting against the
> switch.
> Any comments?

Do you have any idea (just an estimate, not a precise date) of when you
may release 0.79.3? I want to keep tracking you closer with dvdisaster
than I did in the past.


Regards,

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