Re: trixie: cdrecord can no longer write to CD

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

Max Nikulin wrote:
> Changelog entry:
> k3b (0.12.17-4) unstable; urgency=low
>  * Allow the use of cdrskin as an alternative to wodim (closes: #398398)
> -- Francois Marier <francois@debian.org>  Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:13:20 -0500

One would have to give it a thorough test with the various use
cases which involve cdrecord / wodim.
(The use cases where cdrskin is clearly better suited than wodim are
in K3B normally handled by growisofs.)


> Can the following be a better workaround than setting wodim SUID bit?
>
>    apt install cdrskin wodim-

When i explored K3B 20 years ago, i had to enable cdrskin usage in
K3B's list of helper programs.


> It seems, brasero has no such an alternative.

Brasero can use libburn and libisofs directly.
I think these backends are default in Debian for most use cases.
  https://packages.debian.org/unstable/libbrasero-media3-1

Not handled by libburn and libisofs according to
  https://packages.debian.org/unstable/brasero-cdrkit
are
  * Audio CD burning with CD-Text information
  * Video DVD creation
The former would be doable with libburn since version 1.2.0 of 2012.
The latter demands genisoimage option -udf which is not planned to be
ever implmented by libisofs.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas