Bug#496594: brasero: doesn't find DVD media

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:10:34PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 14:17 -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > On 26-Aug-08, 07:57 (CDT), Sven Arvidsson <sa at whiz.se> wrote: 
> > > I'm pretty sure brasero requires hal to be installed and running to be
> > > able to detect blank media in your writer.
> > 
> > Anyone want to explain why brasero doesn't depend on hal? It did bring
> > in libhal-storage1, FWIW.
> 
> It was downgraded from a depends to recommends after bug 432628 was
> filed. So there's either some (undocumented?) way of making it work
> without hal, or it really should have a depends.
> 
> I'm cc'ing Adrian Bunk who filed 432628.

Sorry, it's so long that I last used brasero that I don't remember how I 
got it working back then.

> Cheers,
> Sven Arvidsson

cu
Adrian

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