Bug#1116495: ITP: impression -- GNOME app to create bootable USB drives

[Jeremy Bícha <jbicha@debian.org>]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 7:08 AM Roland Clobus <rclobus@rclobus.nl> wrote:
> There are already several tools that do this in Debian.
>
> There are also already a lot of tools that do this:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tools_to_create_bootable_USB

I think GNOME Disks is the only one on that list that is in Debian.
GNOME Disks does not have a great UI for getting an ISO onto a USB.

> Given the description, it looks like a frontend to dd, and it explicitly
> mentions that it offers a subset of the functionality of GNOME Disks. Do
> we need this?

Neither Impression nor GNOME Disks are frontends to dd; they are
frontends to udisks2.

I would like every GNOME Circle app to be packaged for Debian:
https://circle.gnome.org/

> Will it also list Debian as 'GOOD_DISTROS' [1]?

I haven't gotten that far yet. We customize the GNOME Boxes app to
suggest Debian as the VM guest distro, so we'll probably do the same
for this app.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha