Reason: significantly improves K3b's functionality
Why in NCI? Because Debian or Ubuntu won't do it.
History: http://cdrtools.sourceforge.net/private/cdrecord.html
Acknowledged as being an issue & non-ideal solution: https://launchpad.net/~brandonsnider/+archive/ubuntu/cdrtools
It has been packaged by Solus https://dev.getsol.us/D1834 and KaOS https://kaosx.us/packages/view.php?repo=main&name=cdrtools-3.02a09-1
Source: https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdrtools/files/alpha/