K3B should be moved to KDE from "otherosfs"

Bug #56970 reported by Shriramana Sharma
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
k3b (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
Kenny Duffus

Bug Description

Binary package hint: k3b

K3B is currently listed at: http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/otherosfs/
No one expects it under "Other OS's and file systems" since by the self-professed description at http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/ that section is only for "software to run programs compiled for other operating system, and to use their filesystems".

According to my /etc/fstab, UDF and ISO9660 are the two filesystems used on CDs and DVDs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO9660 says that ISO9660 "aims at supporting different computer operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and systems that follow the Unix specification, so that data may be exchanged."

So ISO9660 belongs to *nix as much as to other OS-es and so cannot be labeled as an "other OS FS". Similarly UDF which is the successor of ISO9660 cannot also be labeled so.

Therefore K3B should not be placed into that category. In the view of the public, K3B is a KDE application. The KDE project itself puts K3B under its own "extra gear", see http://extragear.kde.org/

Therefore K3B should go under http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/kde/ and in the future under the KDE category of the future releases of *ubuntu.

I would attach this bug to Arson (http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/otherosfs/arson) too, but http://arson.sourceforge.net/ shows that this project is long dormant, so I will not. This is a K3B bug for want of a better package to attach to.

Revision history for this message
Kenny Duffus (kduffus) wrote :

This is inherited from debian and is the same section as cdrecord etc

Changed in k3b:
assignee: nobody → kduffus
importance: Untriaged → Wishlist
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Shriramana Sharma (jamadagni) wrote :

Well then if you think so make it an upstream bug too. And move cdrecord etc to some other appropriate category, say under Utilities which is "for file/disk manipulation, backup and archive tools, system monitoring, input systems, etc."

Kenny Duffus (kduffus)
Changed in k3b:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Kenny Duffus (kduffus)
Changed in k3b:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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