cdrecord has no manpage

[Shirish Agarwal]

cdrecord has no manpage as can be seen here. cdrecord should have a manpage.

~$ dpkg -L wodim
/.
/etc
/etc/wodim.conf
/etc/netscsid.conf
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/wodim
/usr/bin/readom
/usr/share
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man1
/usr/share/man/man1/readom.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wodim.1.gz
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/wodim
/usr/share/doc/wodim/README.Debian
/usr/share/doc/wodim/copyright
/usr/share/doc/wodim/NEWS.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/wodim/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/wodim/README.ATAPI.setup
/usr/share/doc/wodim/examples
/usr/share/doc/wodim/examples/netscsid.dfl
/usr/share/doc/wodim/examples/wodim.dfl
/usr/share/doc/wodim/examples/burnstuff
/usr/share/doc/wodim/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/sbin
/usr/sbin/netscsid
/usr/bin/cdrecord
/usr/share/man/man1/netscsid.1.gz

Googling gives one at http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/man/cdrecord-2.0.html

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:
 libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1ubuntu11
 libcap2 2.10-1
 gcc-4.3-base 4.3.2-1ubuntu11
 findutils 4.4.0-2ubuntu3
 libc6 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: wodim 9:1.1.8-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: cdrkit
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[Florian Diesch (diesch)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation.

Ubuntu doesn't use cdrecord but wodim (/usr/bin/cdrecord is just a symlink for compatibility). I think linking the cdrecord manpage to wodim would improve usability.

Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

[Schily (schilling-fokus)]

From a mail, I know hat the bug reporter is interested in the original cdrecord.

Please also note that you don't have the permission to use the name "cdrecord"
for something that is not the original software. Thank you