[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#550316: Bug#550316: Bug#550316: Bug#550316: devicekit-disks: Prevents CD from ejecting

[Michael Biebl]

severity 550316 serious
thanks

Michael Biebl wrote:
 > All replies so far indicate that this behaviour only happens for systems using
> ide-cd/ide-core, i.e. the old IDE subsystem.
> 
> The code also makes assumptions (see the is_cdrom check) that only the new
> libata subsystem is in use, so the cd-rom drive is opened with the wrong flags
> causing the drive to be retracted when it is polled.

Apparently, other distros like Fedora or Ubuntu, completely disable the old IDE
subsystem, so they are not hit by this bug.
Wether we want to do the same in Debian needs to be decided with the Debian
Kernel Team.

The current behaviour though is not acceptable for a release in Debian, so I'm
marking it as RC.

Michael

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