I've raised a bug (#177253, and #174584 is related) in xcdroast concerning the group it assigns to binaries to allow non-root users to access CD-writing devices. xcdroast wants to assign group "xcdwrite" to a number of binaries, both its own (xcdrwrap) and those of other packages (cdrecord, mkisofs, cdda2wav, readcd), so that they do not have to be run as root. The problem is that the cdrecord package assigns group "cdrom" to cdrecord to do the same thing, hence xcdroast and cdrecord are in conflict. I'm raising the issue here on debian-devel to let the maintainers of other cd-writing packages know if you also need the cd-writing group for your binaries, so you can agree on one common name for the group. In my opinion, "cdwrite" makes more sense than cdrecord's "cdrom", but the actual name doesn't matter much, so long as all packages use the same one. Whatever name you decide on, should it go into Policy so that any future maintainers of cd-writing packages can use the same one? Section 10.2.1 says some group IDs are reserved for use by packages, but doesn't specify what those groups are or what their names are. Drew -- PGP public key available at http://people.debian.org/~dparsons/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A
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