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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup <at> gmx.net>
Cc: 28398 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, ng0 <at> n0.is
Subject: [bug#28398] Xfburn
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 15:06:37 +0100

"Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup <at> gmx.net> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/womb/gnumaint/pkgblurbs.txt
>> However in this case our Xorriso description seems to differ.
>> Are you OK with the one in pkgblurbs.txt above?
>
> I'm not sure whether the last sentence could be misleading:
>   "xorriso can then be used to copy files directly into or out of ISO files."
>
> "ISO files" should be "ISO filesystems", in any case.

Indeed, fixed.

[...]

>> As package maintainers our choice is to *not* use bundled software in
>> such cases, though.  Is it the only difference between the two xorrisos?
>
> Feature- and bug-wise: yes.
> There is the built-in copy of libjte in GNU xorriso, which one would have
> to offer libisoburn at configure-, build-, and run-time, in order to get
> the same capability of creating Debian .jigdo and .template files.
> See also  https://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/
>
> Name-wise there are problems with some from-source distros which have
> a 1:1 relationship between source package and installed set of binaries.
> They are unable to offer a package named "xorriso" but only its upstream
> package "libisoburn".
> (I could have changed this by splitting up the three upstream tarballs
>  into six, some years ago. But i did not like the idea much and my then
>  Debian Developer hated it thoroughly. Meanwhile it would cause work in
>  too many distros.)
> Afaik, the FreeBSD port of libisoburn is named "xorriso".
> Archlinux has a "Provides:" header where its "libisoburn" package
> advertises "xorriso, xorriso-tcltk".
>
> Any difference results from automatic creation of GNU xorriso from the
> library sources by
>   https://dev.lovelyhq.com/libburnia/libisoburn/raw/master/xorriso/make_xorriso_standalone.sh
> It makes changes about:
> - Build system files: bootstrap, configure.ac, Makefile.am, version.h.in
> - Documentation files: CONTRIBUTORS, README, COPYRIGHT, COPYING, AUTHORS
> - Program id message and license statement control macro in xorriso/xorriso.h

I see.

Thanks for explaining!

Ludo’.

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