Comment 7 for bug 637684

cdrkit is an extremely outdated software. It offers a development state from September 2004 with additional bugs added by the cdrkit team. The software did get major enhancements and bug fixes since then, but this has been completely ignored by Ubuntu.

As Ubuntu does not offer recent legal software in official packages, there are several private efforts to create up to date cdrtools packages. These packages usually also take care of removing the buggy cdrkit software.