Re: cdwrite 2.1 is not out there

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>]

Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 10:51:16PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> > > I've been playing around with xcdroast and it has cdwrite 2.1 in it's
> > > sources. Debian still has version 2.0.
> > 
> > AFAIR xcdroast had cdwrite in its sources and extended it. So they bumped the
> > version number. I do not know about cdwrite 2.1 - I can't find it on metalab.
> > 
> > Can we close this bug? There is no new cdwrite. Apart from that, this is the
> > rest of the cdwrite homepage:
> > 
> >    cdwrite is no longer supported. It has been replaced by cdrecord by
> >    Jörg Schilling.
> > 
> >    Please do not send mail about cdwrite any longer. It is dead.
> >    Obsolete.
> 
> Possibly a new candidate for project/orphaned, and getting withdrawn?

Indeed.  Could you try to find out if there are issues that are not
addressed by cdrecord - thus if there is a reason not to abandon this
package if it is not maintained.

Regards,

	Joey

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