genisoimage may be going away

This bug was originally filed in Launchpad as [LP: #1915077](https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1915077)

Launchpad details

affected_projects = ['cloud-utils (Ubuntu)']

assignee = None

assignee_name = None

date_closed = None

date_created = 2021-02-08T21:39:44.694094+00:00

date_fix_committed = None

date_fix_released = None

id = 1915077

importance = undecided

is_complete = False

lp_url = https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1915077

milestone = None

owner = mwhudson

owner_name = Michael Hudson-Doyle

private = False

status = confirmed

submitter = mwhudson

submitter_name = Michael Hudson-Doyle

tags = []

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_Launchpad user **Michael Hudson-Doyle(mwhudson)** wrote on 2021-02-08T21:39:44.694094+00:00_

It seems that cdrkit, which is where genisoimage comes from, is dead upstream and is likely to be removed from debian: https://lists.debian.org/debian-cloud/2021/02/msg00011.html

Plenty of cloud-init docs and tutorials refer to genisoimage to create seed ISOs, it may be time to find something else.