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

[Mario Danic]

On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 12:52 +0100, Simon Huggins wrote:
Hello Simon,
> Libburn in Debian is currently old and unmaintained.
Indeed.
> 
> I understand from some real life conversations post-debconf that there
> are some people around here who might be interested in maintaining it
> properly.
Once again you're correct. 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.

Kind regards,
Mario