Comment 54 for bug 233942

Philip Jägenstedt <email address hidden> writes:

> OK, again...
>
> $ sudo dpkg -i mkisofs_2.01.01a50-0ubuntu1~ppa1~hardy_i386.deb
> (Reading database ... 248447 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace mkisofs 10:2.01.01a50-0ubuntu1~ppa1~hardy (using mkisofs_2.01.01a50-0ubuntu1~ppa1~hardy_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement mkisofs ...
> Replaced by files in installed package genisoimage ...
> Setting up mkisofs (10:2.01.01a50-0ubuntu1~ppa1~hardy) ...
>
> So it seems that it isn't being installed because the genisoimage
> package already "provides" it. But you can't remove genisoimage without
> also removing ubuntu-desktop, so you'd have to make a dummy package to
> work around this.

You're right, the genisoimage package would need to have modified to no
longer add a 'Provides:' field and stop distributing the mkisofs
symlink.

As workaround, you would have to remove genisoimage and the
ubuntu-desktop metapackage in order to test these packages.

> But it's all beside the point, because unless the license issue is
> settled Ubuntu won't go back to using cdrtools and thus genisoimage
> should be properly fixed. But since I haven't found a single version of
> it that does work it's hard to say when things broke...

Work on this is ongoing. It currently looks like we could have cdrtools
in jaunty if everything goes well. Stay tuned...

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