[Pkg-libburnia-commits] r121 - trunk/libisoburn/debian

George Danchev danchev at alioth.debian.org
Fri Apr 1 07:03:44 UTC 2011


Author: danchev
Date: 2011-04-01 07:03:27 +0000 (Fri, 01 Apr 2011)
New Revision: 121

Modified:
   trunk/libisoburn/debian/changelog
   trunk/libisoburn/debian/control
Log:
improve xorriso long package description

Modified: trunk/libisoburn/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- trunk/libisoburn/debian/changelog	2011-03-29 21:20:28 UTC (rev 120)
+++ trunk/libisoburn/debian/changelog	2011-04-01 07:03:27 UTC (rev 121)
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+libisoburn (1.0.4.pl00-6) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Improve xorriso long package description, adding
+    recently achieved features in libburnia libraries
+    and xorriso itself as well.
+  * Suggests: jigit (>= 1.17-2) since jigdo-gen-md5-list
+    script is useful to produce a list which in turn is 
+    to be passed to xorriso --md5-list option when producing 
+    jigdo representation files of the image.
+
+ -- George Danchev <danchev at spnet.net>  Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:52:50 +0300
+
 libisoburn (1.0.4.pl00-5) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Build depend on libisofs-dev 1.0.4-3 as it is

Modified: trunk/libisoburn/debian/control
===================================================================
--- trunk/libisoburn/debian/control	2011-03-29 21:20:28 UTC (rev 120)
+++ trunk/libisoburn/debian/control	2011-04-01 07:03:27 UTC (rev 121)
@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@
 Architecture: any
 Section: otherosfs
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libisoburn1 (= ${binary:Version}), libburn4 (>= 0.7.2), libisofs6 (>= 0.6.24)
-Description: command line iso9660+RR manipulation tool
+Suggests: jigit (>= 1.17-2)
+Description: command line ISO9660+RR manipulation tool
  xorriso is a command line and dialog application, which creates, loads,
  manipulates and writes ISO 9660 filesystem images with Rock Ridge extensions.
  .
@@ -63,3 +64,16 @@
  ISO 9660 filesystems and allows session-wise manipulation  of such
  filesystems. It can load the management information of existing ISO images
  and it writes the session results to optical media or to filesystem objects. 
+ .
+ Some other interesting features are:
+  - Isohybrid MBR - allows to boot ISOLINUX from USB sticks or other 
+    devices that appear to PC-BIOS as hard disk.
+  - Emulation of programs like mkisofs and cdrecord.
+  - Features for data backup and restore - compression, ACLs, and filters.
+  - Partition offset -  ISO9660 images which bear a quite conventional
+    partition table if copied onto a USB stick. The first partition marks 
+    the size of the ISO image, but starts at a non-zero address. Thus it 
+    marks a small part of the device as unclaimed by partitions and 
+    available for storing boot loader code.
+  - Jigdo Template Export - jigdo representation of the emerging ISO9660 
+    image, on the fly.




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