On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 08:44:16AM +0100, Free Ekanayaka wrote: > |--==> Andrew Suffield writes: > > AS> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:38:57AM +0100, Free Ekanayaka wrote: > >>I among the ones who really would like to see cdrdao on Debian > >>amd64. Is there any reason that prevent fixing this bug? > > AS> Lack of an amd64 archive, or any particularly good reason to bother > AS> uploading it just for that. Also lack of any practical way to test it, > AS> given the absence of a Debian amd64 platform to test it on. > > I have a amd64 laptop at hand, I can test it out or even give you an > account if needed.
Testing it means reading and burning a bunch of CDs. > AS> I'm > AS> disinclined to do it on vague promises of an amd64 platform in the > AS> future > > Well, maybe the promise is not that vague, as we already have a fully > working non official port and amd64 are becoming quite popular (more > popular than other officially supported archs, for that matter). And it's completely unknown how similar or different it will be if/when there's a proper Debian amd64 platform. > AS> for something as horribly fragile and potentially destructive > AS> as cdrdao; that's how we get software in releases that creates > AS> coasters. > > I think I'm missing something. AFAICS the suggested patch in #249642 > only concerns a couple of symlinks; if the source code is untouched > why just rebuilding it should create coasters? Because cdrdao is fragile and frankly quite broken. It's constructed by taking a chunk of code from cdrecord, which is dodgy at best and only really understood by the somewhat crazy cdrtools author, and slapping a different frontend onto it. I've seen it break from more things I can easily count; the most common are updates to libscg, updates to gcc, and the release of new CD burners into the market. This is not something you can just rebuild and hope it will work. I don't even know if the version of libscg in cdrdao at present has even been ported to amd64, so I'd have to start by updating it from a cdrtools release that I know has been. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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