Comment 5 for bug 530141

The problem you see, has a social background and you need to find a way to
deal with the social problems introduced by Debian before your technical problem
will be fixed. Unfortunately even Ubuntu neither seems to care about its users
nor about legality.

The problem has been introduced im May 2004 when a new Debian packetizer
stopped collaborating with upstream after he has become upset because a buggy
patch from him on mkisofs could not be accepted for the official development. This
person later came up with a fairy tale that there was a legal problem in the original
project in order to harm the original project as a revenge for not being able to place
his buggy code.

Meanwhile numerous lawyers confirmed that there is no such legal problem in the
original software and the person who attacked the project of course never was able
to give any prove for his claim.

If you believe you can help with this social problem, you are welcome!