On 2021-02-07 14:05:29 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 2/7/21 2:00 PM, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > > I'm not sure how you've reached that conclusion. dak definitely > > disagrees: > > > > $ dak rm -Rn cdrkit > > Will remove the following packages from unstable: > > I know what dak says I looked that up myself after you made that statement. > > I previously thought that libburnia is already being used by all relevant > packages > and that cdrkit is required only for mkisofs, in particular for creating ISO > images with a HFS (not HFS+) filesystem. > > If cdrkit is actually being used by so many packages, then it should have been > in much better shape before being shipped with a Debian release. Just painting > over this single issue is not the right approach in my opinion and there are > certainly more issues with cdrkit than just the FTBFS. > > The number of patches in the Fedora package speaks for itself [1]. > > I don't think we're doing ourselves a favor by rushing hotfixes in to get > these > packages into the next release.
I think you are missing the point of a key package. There is no other option than to include cdrkit in the next release. We are already past the point where we allow large and disruptive changes into testing. Please see https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html#transition Cheers > > Adrian > > > [1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/cdrkit/tree/rawhide > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org > `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 > -- Sebastian Ramacher
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