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Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?



On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 08:12:16AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> > If Red Hat wants to pay someone to put up with it, that's their call; it's
> > a lot easier to be polite in the face of an unending stream of personal
> > abuse if you're getting a paycheck for doing it.
> 
> If Red Hat was to do this, then it would not be the only case of Red Hat 
> having a package that Debian users desire.  From time to time I find a 
> situation where a CentOS kernel works better than a Debian kernel, while I 
> agree that it's ideal to try and get the problem in Debian fixed I also have 
> a need to get machines working and sometimes can't invest the necessary 
> amount of time.
> 
> There is the "alien" program to convert an RPM to a .deb.  Is there a way of 
> also automatically tracking the upstream (Fedora or CentOS) version of the 
> package and downloading a new version (with signature checks) when it becomes 
> available?

Russell, what does that have to do with wodim and/or xcdroast?  Next
time you want to start a completely new discussion, please start a
completely new discussion and don't enlarge the already large thread
about xcdroast and wodim.


thanks,

Michael


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