[Pkg-opt-media-team] Bug#713016: New upload of dvd+rw-tools (was: Re: New upload?)

[Michael Vogt]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 09:54:38PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote:
> Hi, Michael.
HI Rogério,
 
> On Feb 19 2015, Michael Vogt wrote:
> > I tested the patch and it works for me too,
> 
> Not having a bluray disc/drive available, I wasn't able to test this
> myself. (To be honest, I have never even *seen* a BD).

No worries, I understand your concern. But it seems to be pretty safe,
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/dvd+rw-tools.git/commit/?id=545689bfb2a04cb642b48a8495024e23545363a4
has it since June 2013 and I burned a buncf of blurays with it as
well. 
 
> > I would really like to see this fix in Debian and want to help making this
> > happen.
> 
> Would this have any chance of getting into the next stable?

I think we should try, targeted fixes for release criticial bugs of
severity critical are stull supported
(https://release.debian.org/jessie/freeze_policy.html)

I guess one could argue that this is a critical bug as it prevents
bluray burning. The diff is tiny, the regression risk too. Worth a
shoot in my opinion :)

> > If there are no objections I would like to do a upload with the patch
> > of the package and add myself to the uploaders.
> 
> Do you have changes ready already? The packaging is in a desperate need of a
> facelift and adoption of best current practices (e.g., a pristine-tar
> branch, updating many other things etc.).

I think its a good goal to modernize the packaging. However if we want to
try to get this change into testing I think the smaller the diff, the
better the chances :)

For Ubuntu I did:
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/198147479/dvd%2Brw-tools_7.1-10build1_7.1-10ubuntu0.14.10.1.diff.gz 

Its a tiny diff, I think we should try to get that into testing and do
further packaging later.

> I am taking a *brief* look at the packaging, but I would appreciate any kind
> of help.
> 
> I think that I will put a copy of this under my github account, since I like
> the user interface better there.

Sure, thats fine.
 
> Also, as I have expressed in the past, I think that this "team" should be
> merged with the other team that is taking care of, say, cdrkit and others.

I have no opinion either way :)

Cheers,
 Michael