Hi Thomas, Quoting Thomas Schmitt (2021-09-04 10:28:43) > it is usable as a standalone tool, which shall make safer the > procedure of copying a Debian ISO image onto a USB stick. As a shell > script it is hopefully widely usable on all GNU/Linux systems which > offer lsblk(8).
Cool: I have missed such a tool for long! > Nevertheless, it already has one customer which uses it as component: > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb/xscl > > I have difficulties to find a short statement which addresses your > question in that light. I could simply state: > > This is a standalone tool but also usable as part of other tools > which aim for safer copying of disk images. How about rephrasing the current initial sentence: xorriso-dd-target evaluates block devices [...] and optionally copies the image [...] to this: xorriso-dd-target is a command-line tool to evaluate block devices [...] and optionally copy the image [...] > (Actually i don't see why a reader would suspect that it is not > standalone. Wouldn't this suspicion apply to the xorriso binary, too > ?) The package xorriso has this initial paragraph: xorriso is a command line and dialog application, which creates, loads, manipulates, and writes ISO-9660 file system images with Rock Ridge extensions. To me, that text unambiguously states that it is a general-purpose tool. > Is it permissible to add a link to > https://wiki.debian.org/XorrisoDdTarget > instead ? Not instead - package long description should be self-contained. But I notice that the package has http://libburnia-project.org as homepage and that page seemingly doesn't mention the tool. So perhaps it makes sense to treat https://wiki.debian.org/XorrisoDdTarget as the homepage of the tool? Or arguably better (since it seems you are upstream author), add a page e.g. http://libburnia-project.org/XorrisoDdTarget and have the package point to that page. Kind regards, and thanks for the quick response, - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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