diff --git a/cdrskin/add_ts_changes_to_libburn_1_4_8 b/cdrskin/add_ts_changes_to_libburn_1_4_8
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -x
+
+# This script documents how this cdrskin version was derived from
+# a vanilla libburn version. It is not intended nor needed for any
+# use of cdrskin but included here only to show the technical 
+# relationship between both projects - which are close friends
+# and issue roughly the same software.
+#
+# Package maintainers are advised to cover rather libburn than
+# cdrskin unless they put only emphasis on the cdrecord emulation
+# provided by cdrskin. libburn contains cdrskin - cdrskin is an
+# oscillating, friendly and coordinated fork of libburn.
+# 
+# Script results are a source tarball and two binaries
+# one dynamic and one static in respect to system libs.
+# Both binaries are static in respect to libburn.
+#
+# The script is to be run in the directory above the toplevel
+# directory of libburn (or cdrskin) development.
+#
+
+# The top level directory in the SVN snapshot is named
+intermediate="./libburn_pykix"
+
+# libburn source used:  http://libburnia.pykix.org
+# Downloaded by:
+#  $ svn co http://libburnia-svn.pykix.org/libburn/tags/... $intermediate
+# packed up in a tarball just to save it from inadverted changes by
+#  $ tar czf libburn_svn.tgz $intermediate
+original="./libburn_svn_release.tgz"
+# Historic moments:
+# original="./libburn_svn_A60815.tgz"
+# original="./libburn_cdrskin_A60819.tgz"
+
+
+# My changes are in $changes , mainly in $changes/cdrskin
+changes="./libburn-release"
+
+skin_release="1.4.8"
+patch_level=""
+# patch_level=".pl00"
+skin_rev="$skin_release""$patch_level"
+
+# The result directory and the name of the result tarballs
+target="./cdrskin-${skin_release}"
+cdrskin_tarball="./cdrskin-${skin_rev}.tar.gz"
+cdrskin_tarball_svn="./cdrskin-${skin_rev}.svn.tar.gz"
+
+# (This once earned me an embarrassingly blooping source tarball)
+# compile_dir="$changes"
+
+compile_dir="$target"
+compile_cmd="./cdrskin/compile_cdrskin.sh"
+compile_static_opts="-static"
+compile_result="cdrskin/cdrskin"
+
+man_to_html_cmd="./cdrskin/convert_man_to_html.sh"
+man_page_html="cdrskin/man_1_cdrskin.html"
+
+# bintarget_dynamic="cdrskin_${skin_rev}-x86-suse9_0"
+# bintarget_dynamic="cdrskin_${skin_rev}-amd64-suse10_2"
+bintarget_dynamic="cdrskin_${skin_rev}-amd64-debian8_0"
+bintarget_static="$bintarget_dynamic"-static
+
+if test -d "$changes"
+then
+  dummy=dummy
+else
+  echo "$0 : FATAL : no directory $changes" >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+for i in "$target" "$intermediate"
+do
+  if test -e "$i"
+  then
+    echo "$0 : FATAL : already existing $i" >&2
+    exit 2
+  fi
+done
+
+if test -f "$original"
+then
+ dummy=dummy
+else
+  echo "$0 : FATAL : no file $original" >&2
+  exit 3
+fi
+
+
+# Unpack SVN snapshot.
+tar xzf "$original"
+
+
+# Rename the directory to the cdrskin name
+mv "$intermediate" "$target"
+
+
+# Copy the changes from the development tree
+# 
+cdrskin_dir="$changes"/cdrskin
+libburn_dir="$changes"/libburn
+cdrskin_target="$target"/cdrskin
+libburn_target="$target"/libburn
+
+# Create version timestamp
+# timestamp="$(date -u '+%Y.%m.%d.%H%M%S')"
+# echo "$timestamp"
+# echo '#define Cdrskin_timestamP "'"$timestamp"'"' >"$cdrskin_dir"/cdrskin_timestamp.h
+
+# Add the cdrskin files
+if test -e "$cdrskin_target"
+then
+  rm -rf "$cdrskin_target"
+fi
+cp -a "$cdrskin_dir" "$cdrskin_target"
+
+# Remove copied vim.swp and binaries
+rm "$cdrskin_target"/.*.swp
+rm "$cdrskin_target"/.*.swo
+rm "$cdrskin_target"/*.o
+rm "$cdrskin_target"/cdrfifo
+rm "$cdrskin_target"/cdrskin
+rm "$cdrskin_target"/cleanup
+for i in std new make old
+do
+  if test -e "$cdrskin_target"/cdrskin_"$i"
+  then
+    rm "$cdrskin_target"/cdrskin_"$i"
+  fi
+done
+
+# Remove eventual SVN stuff from cdrskin directory
+for i in .deps .dirstamp .libs
+do
+  if test -e "$cdrskin_target"/"$i"
+  then
+    rm -rf "$cdrskin_target"/"$i"
+  fi
+done
+
+# Remove GIFs of cdrskin_eng.html
+rm "$cdrskin_target"/doener_*.gif "$cdrskin_target"/doener_*.png
+
+# Remove automatically generated HTML man page
+rm "$cdrskin_target"/man_1_cdrskin.html
+
+# Remove all add_ts_changes_to_libburn besides this one
+for i in "$cdrskin_target"/add_ts_changes_to_libburn*
+do
+  if test $(basename "$0") = $(basename "$i")
+  then
+    dummy=dummy
+  else
+    rm $i
+  fi
+done
+
+# Remove libcevap
+rm -rf "$target"/libcevap
+
+
+# Remove unwanted SVN stuff (TODO: avoid downloading it)
+for i in "$target"/.svn "$target"/*/.svn
+do
+  if test "$i" = "$target"'/*/.svn'
+  then
+    dummy=dummy
+  else
+    if test -e "$i"
+    then
+      rm -rf "$i"
+    fi
+  fi
+done
+
+
+# Make SVN state tarball for the libburn team
+tar czf "$cdrskin_tarball_svn" "$target"
+
+
+# Get over dependecy on autotools. Rely only on cc, make et. al.
+# This is not the same as "make dist" but i can do it without
+# having to evaluate the quality of said "make dist"
+#
+( cd "$target" ; ./bootstrap )
+
+# Remove unwanted stuff after bootstrap
+for i in "$target"/autom4te.cache
+do
+  if echo "$i" | grep '\*' >/dev/null
+  then
+    dummy=dummy
+  else
+    if test -e "$i"
+    then
+      rm -rf "$i"
+    fi
+  fi
+done
+
+# Repair non-portable shell code output of ./bootstrap
+(
+ cd "$compile_dir" || exit 1
+ sed -e 's/^for ac_header in$/test -z 1 \&\& for ac_header in dummy/' \
+     < ./configure > ./configure-repaired
+ if test "$?" = 0
+ then
+   echo "$0: Empty 'for ac_header in' found in configure." >&2
+ fi
+ mv ./configure-repaired ./configure
+ chmod a+rx,go-w,u+w ./configure
+)
+
+# Pack it up to the new libburn+cdrskin-tarball
+tar czf "$cdrskin_tarball" "$target"
+
+# Produce a static and a dynamic binary, and a HTML man page
+(
+ cd "$compile_dir" || exit 1
+ ./configure
+ make
+ "$compile_cmd" -O2 -do_strip
+ cp "$compile_result" "../$bintarget_dynamic"
+ if test -n "$compile_static_opts"
+ then
+   "$compile_cmd" $compile_static_opts -O2 -do_strip
+   cp "$compile_result" "../$bintarget_static"
+ fi
+ "$man_to_html_cmd"
+ mv "$man_page_html" ..
+)
+
+# Remove the build area
+# Disable this for debugging the merge process
+rm -rf "$target"
+
+# Show the result
+./"$bintarget_dynamic" -version
+./"$bintarget_static" -version
+ls -l "$cdrskin_tarball"
+ls -l "$bintarget_dynamic"
+ls -l "$bintarget_static"
+ls -l $(basename "$man_page_html")
+
diff --git a/cdrskin/add_ts_changes_to_libburn_1_4_9 b/cdrskin/add_ts_changes_to_libburn_1_4_9
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..875bce5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cdrskin/add_ts_changes_to_libburn_1_4_9
@@ -0,0 +1,247 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -x
+
+# This script documents how this cdrskin version was derived from
+# a vanilla libburn version. It is not intended nor needed for any
+# use of cdrskin but included here only to show the technical 
+# relationship between both projects - which are close friends
+# and issue roughly the same software.
+#
+# Package maintainers are advised to cover rather libburn than
+# cdrskin unless they put only emphasis on the cdrecord emulation
+# provided by cdrskin. libburn contains cdrskin - cdrskin is an
+# oscillating, friendly and coordinated fork of libburn.
+# 
+# Script results are a source tarball and two binaries
+# one dynamic and one static in respect to system libs.
+# Both binaries are static in respect to libburn.
+#
+# The script is to be run in the directory above the toplevel
+# directory of libburn (or cdrskin) development.
+#
+
+# The top level directory in the SVN snapshot is named
+intermediate="./libburn_pykix"
+
+# libburn source used:  http://libburnia-project.org
+# Downloaded by:
+#  $ svn co http://libburnia-project.org/libburn/tags/... $intermediate
+# packed up in a tarball just to save it from inadverted changes by
+#  $ tar czf libburn_svn.tgz $intermediate
+original="./libburn_svn.tgz"
+# Historic moments:
+# original="./libburn_svn_A60815.tgz"
+# original="./libburn_cdrskin_A60819.tgz"
+
+
+# My changes are in $changes , mainly in $changes/cdrskin
+changes="./libburn-develop"
+
+skin_release="1.4.9"
+patch_level=""
+skin_rev="$skin_release""$patch_level"
+
+# The result directory and the name of the result tarballs
+target="./cdrskin-${skin_release}"
+cdrskin_tarball="./cdrskin-${skin_rev}.tar.gz"
+cdrskin_tarball_svn="./cdrskin-${skin_rev}.svn.tar.gz"
+
+# (This once earned me an embarrassingly blooping source tarball)
+# compile_dir="$changes"
+
+compile_dir="$target"
+compile_cmd="./cdrskin/compile_cdrskin.sh"
+compile_static_opts="-static"
+compile_result="cdrskin/cdrskin"
+
+man_to_html_cmd="./cdrskin/convert_man_to_html.sh"
+man_page_html="cdrskin/man_1_cdrskin.html"
+
+# bintarget_dynamic="cdrskin_${skin_rev}-amd64-suse10_2"
+bintarget_dynamic="cdrskin_${skin_rev}-amd64-debian8_0"
+bintarget_static="$bintarget_dynamic"-static
+
+if test -d "$changes"
+then
+  dummy=dummy
+else
+  echo "$0 : FATAL : no directory $changes" >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+for i in "$target" "$intermediate"
+do
+  if test -e "$i"
+  then
+    echo "$0 : FATAL : already existing $i" >&2
+    exit 2
+  fi
+done
+
+if test -f "$original"
+then
+ dummy=dummy
+else
+  echo "$0 : FATAL : no file $original" >&2
+  exit 3
+fi
+
+
+# Unpack SVN snapshot.
+tar xzf "$original"
+
+
+# Rename the directory to the cdrskin name
+mv "$intermediate" "$target"
+
+
+# Copy the changes from the development tree
+# 
+cdrskin_dir="$changes"/cdrskin
+libburn_dir="$changes"/libburn
+cdrskin_target="$target"/cdrskin
+libburn_target="$target"/libburn
+
+# Create version timestamp
+timestamp="$(date -u '+%Y.%m.%d.%H%M%S')"
+echo "$timestamp"
+echo '#define Cdrskin_timestamP "'"$timestamp"'"' >"$cdrskin_dir"/cdrskin_timestamp.h
+
+# Add the cdrskin files
+if test -e "$cdrskin_target"
+then
+  rm -rf "$cdrskin_target"
+fi
+cp -a "$cdrskin_dir" "$cdrskin_target"
+
+# Remove copied vim.swp and binaries
+rm "$cdrskin_target"/.*.swp
+rm "$cdrskin_target"/.*.swo
+rm "$cdrskin_target"/*.o
+rm "$cdrskin_target"/cdrfifo
+rm "$cdrskin_target"/cdrskin
+rm "$cdrskin_target"/cleanup
+for i in std new make old
+do
+  if test -e "$cdrskin_target"/cdrskin_"$i"
+  then
+    rm "$cdrskin_target"/cdrskin_"$i"
+  fi
+done
+
+# Remove eventual SVN stuff from cdrskin directory
+for i in .deps .dirstamp .libs
+do
+  if test -e "$cdrskin_target"/"$i"
+  then
+    rm -rf "$cdrskin_target"/"$i"
+  fi
+done
+
+# Remove GIFs of cdrskin_eng.html
+rm "$cdrskin_target"/doener_*.gif "$cdrskin_target"/doener_*.png
+
+# Remove automatically generated HTML man page
+rm "$cdrskin_target"/man_1_cdrskin.html
+
+# Remove libcevap
+rm -rf "$target"/libcevap
+
+# Remove all add_ts_changes_to_libburn besides this one
+for i in "$cdrskin_target"/add_ts_changes_to_libburn*
+do
+  if test $(basename "$0") = $(basename "$i")
+  then
+    dummy=dummy
+  else
+    rm $i
+  fi
+done
+
+# Remove unwanted SVN stuff (TODO: avoid downloading it)
+for i in "$target"/.svn "$target"/*/.svn
+do
+  if test "$i" = "$target"'/*/.svn'
+  then
+    dummy=dummy
+  else
+    if test -e "$i"
+    then
+      rm -rf "$i"
+    fi
+  fi
+done
+
+
+# Make SVN state tarball for the libburn team
+tar czf "$cdrskin_tarball_svn" "$target"
+
+
+# Get over dependecy on autotools. Rely only on cc, make et. al.
+# This is not the same as "make dist" but i can do it without
+# having to evaluate the quality of said "make dist"
+#
+( cd "$target" ; ./bootstrap )
+
+# Remove unwanted stuff after bootstrap
+for i in "$target"/autom4te.cache
+do
+  if echo "$i" | grep '\*' >/dev/null
+  then
+    dummy=dummy
+  else
+    if test -e "$i"
+    then
+      rm -rf "$i"
+    fi
+  fi
+done
+
+# Repair non-portable shell code output of ./bootstrap
+( 
+ cd "$compile_dir" || exit 1
+ sed -e 's/^for ac_header in$/test -z 1 \&\& for ac_header in dummy/' \
+     < ./configure > ./configure-repaired
+ if test "$?" = 0
+ then
+   echo "$0: Empty 'for ac_header in' found in configure." >&2
+ fi
+ mv ./configure-repaired ./configure
+ chmod a+rx,go-w,u+w ./configure
+)
+
+
+# Pack it up to the new libburn+cdrskin-tarball
+tar czf "$cdrskin_tarball" "$target"
+
+# Produce a static and a dynamic binary, and a HTML man page
+(
+ cd "$compile_dir" || exit 1
+ ./configure
+ make
+ "$compile_cmd" -libburn_svn -O2 -do_strip
+ cp "$compile_result" "../$bintarget_dynamic"
+ if test -n "$compile_static_opts"
+ then
+   "$compile_cmd" $compile_static_opts -libburn_svn -O2 -do_strip
+   cp "$compile_result" "../$bintarget_static"
+ fi
+#  "$compile_cmd" -libburn_svn -O2 -do_diet -do_strip
+#  cp "$compile_result" "../$bintarget_dynamic"_diet
+ "$man_to_html_cmd"
+ mv "$man_page_html" ..
+)
+
+# Remove the build area
+# Disable this for debugging the merge process
+rm -rf "$target"
+
+# Show the result
+./"$bintarget_dynamic" -version
+./"$bintarget_static" -version
+ls -l "$cdrskin_tarball"
+ls -l "$bintarget_dynamic"
+ls -l "$bintarget_static"
+ls -l $(basename "$man_page_html")
+