From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265974AbUHSNKb (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:10:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266065AbUHSNKb (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:10:31 -0400 Received: from albireo.ucw.cz ([81.27.203.89]:8067 "EHLO albireo.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265974AbUHSNK1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:10:27 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:10:26 +0200 From: Martin Mares To: Joerg Schilling Cc: kernel@wildsau.enemy.org, diablod3@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices Message-ID: <20040819131026.GA9813@ucw.cz> References: <200408041233.i74CX93f009939@wildsau.enemy.org> <4124A024.nail7X62HZNBB@burner> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4124A024.nail7X62HZNBB@burner> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello! > It makes no sense to comment things if you don't know what's going on. > So please avoid comments like this in the future. > > Your statement "it may be now moved to non-free in Debian in the near future" > is just complete nonsense. Of course, I am in discussions with Debian people > about the best method to force SuSE not to publish broken versions of cdrtools > in the future. Hmmm, it seems that the matter is so complicated that even you don't know what's going on ;-) The latest issue of Debian Weekly News explicitly mentions that cdrecord has to go to non-free unless the license additions get changed. > Let me comment what SuSE is currently doing with cdrtools: You accuse Linux distributors of being non-cooperative, but I think that the major cause of not cooperating is that just everybody in the Linux world does not share your set of dogmata, the recent discussion about addressing devices being a prime example. Although I very much appreciate your experience with CD recording, I feel that the ways of referring to devices should be best left to Linux developers. (BTW: I am not sure I haven't missed anything in the long cdrecord-related threads on the LKML, but I still haven't seen what is exactly so broken on the cdrecord shipped by SUSE.) Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth System going down at 5 pm to install scheduler bug.