Package: cdrtools
Version: 4:2.01+01a03-5
Severity: important
See: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> If someone else also wants: Do work on the bugs and try to
> reporduce/fix/close them, sent patches, but dont flame with upstream,
> that doesnt help. :)
Flaming the upstream has been the biggest problem in the past....
I would be happy if the Debian maintainers would rather talk and cooperate.
Note that more than 90% of all problems of this package on Debian are a result
of either bugs in the Linux kernel or caused by patches from Debian.
Here is a list of bussy patches applied by Debian on cdrtools:
02_cdrecord_default_conf.dpatch Introduces unsupported dev= syntax
and definitely makes cdda2wav behave
in an unwanted way.
02_paths.dpatch Intruduces unneded "Silo" patch
08_privacy.dpatch Introducing useless "privacy" (onviously
from people who did not yet look at the
"privacy leaks" found in Debian packages
May cause future versions of Solaris to
fail dealing correctly with hard linked
files of zero size!
14_mkisofs_iconv.dpatch Half hearted patch that does not address
the needs of a portable program.
18_donotopen_hda.dpatch Prevents libscg from seeing all
possible SCSI devices
20_rsh-bugfix.dpatch Unneeded, may break things
21_makefile_fix_for_kernel.dpatch ONLY applicable on Debian Linux with
Linux kernel version 2.4 or newer.
Breaks cdrtools with all other Linux
versions
Should rather fix the kernel....
22_linux_rawio_capability.dpatch Linux should rather introduce user level
support for fine grained privs than
forcing applications to add highly
non-nportable code.
It is unclear whether this patch causes
problems rather than giving benefits.
23_o_excl.dpatch Causes libscg to fail and is the reason
for 3 bugs in the cdrtools Debuan bug
list.
24_debug_tmpfile.dpatch Unneeded iin case that
/etc/default/rscsi is installed with
the right permissions
27_scsi_buffer_size.dpatch Breaks the interface of libscg
it is completely unneeded!
28_cdda2wav_interface.dpatch Patch with unclear target....
People should rather educated by Debian
how to correctly specify dev= arguments
for libscg
31_gnu-kfreebsd.dpatch Does not do the right things and rather
breaks things
33_extra_arch_boot_support.dpatch Introducing this code would cause a lot
of testing in order to maintain
quality....
34_JTE.dpatch Looks like something that breaks
mkisofs
36_ATA_scanbus_ignore_locked.dpatch See 23_o_excl
People who introduce so many problems instead of cooperating will of course
make the upstream unhappy....
Jörg
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