Bug#525140: [brasero] Should recommend or depend on 'cdrdao'

[Joerg Schilling]

Jason Heeris <jason.heeris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > just a note:
> >
> > The best audio quality is achived when using cdrecord (cdrtools).
> > [...]
> > wodim is unmaintained, just represents an old (4+ years old) state of cdrtools
> ...But the description of the Debian cdrecord package says:
> > This is a dummy package to ease the transition to wodim, the fork of 
> > cdrecord.  It provides a cdrecord symlink to wodim for compatibility 
> > purposes.  Please use wodim instead of cdrecord.
> ...which is a bit confusing. At any rate, I know that without the cdrdao 
> package installed, I cannot select any of the options for burning (eg. 
> simulate, overburning, etc); whereas I can with it installed.

This may be a deficit of brasero or your brasero version.

It may make sense to talk to the brasero maintainers/authors directly.
Note that Solaris decided not to include cdrdao at all and that Solaris
tries to use brasero, so there is a need to implement decent brasero support
for cdrtools.


> The drive is a Samsung SATA SH-S223F (the device manager says it's an 
> SCSI connection, /dev/scd0), by the way.

All CD writers are SCSI, they may just use a different SCSI transport media.

Jörg

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