[Debburn-devel] libburn/libburnia (round 2)

[Simon Huggins]

Hiya Mario,

On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 04:27:25PM +0200, Mario Danic wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 12:52 +0100, Simon Huggins wrote:
> Hello Simon,
> > I'm only really interested in it as xfburn (an xfce add-on) depends on
> > it but it'd be good for our users if we could sort out the situation
> > with it in Debian.
> I do hope that xfburn development picks up in the near future.

Upstream or in Debian?  We have plans for xfburn in Debian but need
libburn fixed.

I think a bigger audience for xfburn (and libburn) can only help
everything here.

> > Ubuntu generate cdrskin from the libburn sources and that's what
> > I've proposed before to George Danchev and Eduard Bloch.  George
> > said he was willing to maintain it with some help and sponsorship.
> > There is libisofs that would need to be uploaded too.
> I would be willing to maintain it, and that shouldn't be a problem.
> Given that, I'm the libburn/libisofs source packages maintainer in
> Ubuntu.

Ok, though it'd be good if you agreed to take George under your wing too
and to maintain it in a team based way somewhere?

> > Sean Harshburger seems to be MIA as far as I can tell given the lack of
> > response on recent bugs.
> > Is there any interest in doing this with the debburn project?
> > Steve McIntyre mentioned there might be.
> There actually is some pending discussion about libburnia project
> lately which should bring us the benefit of having rocking packages
> and a really good stack in Debian.

Ahhh, ok.  Is there anything concrete yet?  Is it worth creating a
project for it this weekend?

> > Let me know in any case otherwise I'll consider setting up a separate
> > alioth project for libburn/cdrskin/libisofs with George any other
> > interested parties.
> For now, until the discussion are done ... I don't think it's necessary.
> I do hope Sledge, Ganneff and others will have more time soon for a
> discussion.

Ok.  Well if you have pointers to the discussions or more information
let us know.

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