[k3b] [Bug 322720] CD once burnt in K3b, did not eject or stop running (spinning). I'm using Ubuntu version 12.04 LTS

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322720

--- Comment #3 from joerg.schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de ---
Did you consider to warn people in case they are using this fake program
"wodim" instead of the original "cdrtools"?

"wodim" has been created by Debian in May 2004 with the background that 
some uninformed people at Debian believed, sending SCSI commands works
without root privileges.

As a result, the Debian people removed all sanity checks from the source code
after Linux came up with an incompatible SCSI kernel interface change that
allowed **some** SCSI commands to be send without root privileges.

As a result from both changes, the fake code from Debian succeeded in some 
cases without root privileges and failed in many other cases, resulting in a
very unreliable behavior.

Finally, the Debian people stopped working on that program in May 2007 and
as a result, you may today safely consider this "wodim" as an artefact of
a social attack initiated by some unfriendly Debian people.

People who have been interested in reliable software always used the
original software instead of that fake program from Debian. This applies
even to non-technical people: 10 years ago, one of the chiefs from
Bundeskrimialamt asked me "Why do I need to compile cdrtools myself in
order to get working CD/DVD/BD burning software?", so the constraints
are well known, just many people don't know the background.


So I believe that people who have "wodim" instead of cdrecord, "genisoimage"
instead of mkisofs, ... should be warned about the bugs in the installed
software and deserve a hint to the original software.

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