Bug#374518: nautilus-cd-burner: cannot select proper burn speed for DVD+R media

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mardi 20 juin 2006 à 10:51 +0200, Joerg Schilling a écrit :
> Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:
> > Nautilus-cd-burner doesn't use cdrecord or dvd+rw-tools for guessing
> > drive speeds, but HAL, which in turns directly uses the kernel. So this
> > is most likely a problem in the kernel, maybe in HAL.
> 
> Could you please stop your silly troling!
> 
> I wish you did have at least some basic background knowledge...

Again, I wish you stopped trolling on the BTS.

> It is well known that Nautilus is a non-portable application that
> reads /proc/scsi/* in order to find the write speed.
> This is a silly decision as it is non-portable and as it depends on
> the code quality of the Linux kernel.

Nautilus uses HAL to find the write speed. I have the code just in front
of me, believe me or not, it uses HAL. It will read /proc/scsi only if
HAL fails.

> The bastardized cdrecord variant that comes with Debian includes many bugs
> introduced by Debian and is completely outdated.

New versions won't be introduced in Debian since you have changed the
licensing terms.
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