This package contains the Cdrtools written by Jörg Schilling.
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The Cdrtools are part of a larger package named "Schilytools".

Now that Jörg has passed away, development of the Schilytools has been taken
over by a team of volunteers and takes place at the git repository

   http://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools.

This package is based on that repo, but installs only those parts, that used to
be part of the old Cdrtools onto your system.

There are builds for amd64, i386, arm64, armhf, armel and ppc64el.

It replaces the buggy unmaintained stuff from the packets wodim, genisoimage
and icedax.

The package is mostly statically linked. So there are very few
dependencies. The package will *not* install all the libraries used to
build it.

The package will *not* use and *not depend* on systemd or one of it's
libraries in any way!

The files AN-202... within the "/usr/share/doc/cdrtools" directory
hold the upstream information about the latest changes.


Linux-Dists that work with this package
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The binary packages have been build on a DEVUAN-Beowulf system! They will run
and can be installed on every Debian/Devuan like system from Debian Jessie to
Debian Sid.

Tested and found to work: Debian Jessie, Debian Stretch, Debian Buster, Debian
Bullseye, Debian Bookworm, Debian Sid, DEVUAN Jessie, DEVUAN Ascii, DEVUAN
Beowulf, DEVUAN/Chimaera, DEVUAN Daedalus, DEVUAN Ceres.

Not tested, but should work also: Ubuntu, Raspbian. REPORTS WELCOME!


Install-Base-Dir
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It will install into "/usr" not into "/opt/schily". It can also be removed
completely by use of your normal package-system.


Extended Privileges for some binaries
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The binaries "cdrecord", "cdda2wav" and "readcd" need access to the raw
devices and therefore extended privileges.

If your system supports it, (you need to have the "libcap2-bin" package
installed) this package will use linux capabilities for this. See "man
capabilities" for more information.

Otherwise those binaries will be installed suid root.

If your system uses capabilities, make sure your backup-software does
also support them! If it doesn't, the binaries may stop working after a
restore!!

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WARNING! All USERS that need to access the drive, MUST BE A MEMBER OF
THE GROUP "cdrom" or they will get "permission denied"!
*********************************************************************

See "man adduser" for how to add users to that group.

Some utilities, get installed into "/usr/sbin" and are intended to be used only
by root.

Frontends
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Some scripts have been added to make this package work as a
"drop-in-replacement" for the "wodim stuff".

It should now work with frontends like Brasero or k3b and can be
installed along with them.

First install the Frontend (which will install the "wodim-stuff") and
then this package (which will replace it).

This has not been tested very much. I'm interested in Bug-Reports.


UTF-8 character set
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The original sources are written using the ISO-8859-1 character set.

This package has been converted to UTF-8, since this is what Debian uses by
default.


Build from source
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If you, for some reason, want to build the package from source yourself, you
should use the source-package from my repo.

Do *not* download and install the tarball from the git repo! It will overwrite
lots of your systems utilities and libraries with the "Schily-Version" and most
likely screw up your system! To make things worse, "make uninstall" does
nothing! You have been warned!

The unmodified original tarball is also included within my source-package. I
have however taken great care, that nothing gets installed, which may replace
or overwrite parts of your system other than the "wodim stuff".


Problems and Bug-Reports
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If you have problems with this package, would like to make some
suggestions or report a bug, just send an email to

"friedhelm@friedhelms.net".


Regards Friedhelm
