[Debburn-devel] GNU isofsmk (was: Re: Announcing mkisofs 1.13)

[Robert Millan]

Hi,

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 12:09:50AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> If you really like to take the outdated mkisofs and play with it, I urge 
> you not to use the name "mkisofs" for this

Next release will be renamed to GNU isofsmk to make sure users won't get
confused.

> Note that your tar archive contains a file "NEWS" that makes incorrect claims:
> 
> -	The software you published does not support files >= 4 GB
> 
> 	The original mkisofs supports files > 4 GB (implemented by me) 
> 	since 3.5 years.

This claim isn't incorrect, but perhaps isn't clear enough:  It refers to a
limit in the size of the filesystem image itself, rather than its content.

-- 
Robert Millan

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