Brasero produces .toc files containing absolute paths when

[Frank]

Binary package hint: brasero

When producing an image with brasero, two files (brasero.toc and brasero.toc.bin) are created. brasero.toc contains absolute filenames. When you move the files to another location and try to burn them, brasero fails (I use a german localization, the error message is "brasero.toc kann nicht gefunden werden.", which would translate as "brasero.toc cannot be found).
Expected behaviour would have been that brasero is able to use the files even if I move them to another directory, or at least a warning that the files can only be used from the place where they are created.

frank@ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
frank@ubuntu:~$ apt-cache policy brasero
brasero:
  Installiert: 2.26.1-0ubuntu1
  Kandidat: 2.26.1-0ubuntu1
  Versions-Tabelle:
 *** 2.26.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 ftp://ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de jaunty-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.26.0-0ubuntu3 0
        500 ftp://ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de jaunty/main Packages
frank@ubuntu:~$

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[simon place (psiplace)]

reopening bug, because it effects me and has been incorrectly closed, the description above is actually explicit and accurate.

absolute paths are just a mistake.

also the error messages and error log are unhelpful, problem deduced from examining the toc file in an editor.

[Rob de Graaf (mail-robdegraaf)]

Brasero 3.10.0 in 14.04 LTS still produces cue and toc files with absolute paths in them. It is easy enough to work around by editing the cue/toc file, but as a default it's counterintuitive. It would be better to leave the path out when writing the cue/toc file and use only the image file name. That way, the files may be moved anywhere (as you often would with disk images), and they could still be opened and burned, as long as they are kept together. I don't see any value in keeping the path in there.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.