[Pkg-cups-devel] cupsys: bug triaging

Kenshi Muto kmuto at debian.org
Mon Aug 15 03:00:37 UTC 2005


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Hi Martin and folks,

At Sun, 14 Aug 2005 20:27:42 +0300 (EEST),
Martin-ノric Racine wrote:
> Following the recent flood of bugs (some of which were raised to RC) on cupsys, 
> I have taken a quick look at outstanding bugs. We have *that* many bugs? Yikes!

Yep, sorry for my late work. I just backed from busy days.

> ***
> First, the issue that keeps on popping since a few days:  the missing dependency 
> on 'gs-esp'. Am I correct to assume that the only reason why it is in Recommends 
> instead of Depends is because not all printers are of the Postscript variety and 
> therefore won't necessarily all require Postscript preprocessing?

Right. It's changed since 1.1.22-0.experimental4.
I got some same bugs/direct mails, "Hey, I don't want gs-esp!!".

> Would it be fair to assume that all modern printer *are* Postscript-compatible 
> and to move 'gs-esp' to Depends just to avoid that sort of noisy bug report?
> If yes, then I could logon to SVN and fix this now.

Well, gs-esp is used as pstoraster in CUPS. pstoraster is used by some
PPDs. So, I thought that each PPD deb for CUPS should depend gs-esp, instead
of CUPS depends gs-esp.

But yes, making strict dependency with gs-esp on cupsys is easier.
I'm not against you change dependency.

> ***
> On the more general bug triaging issue, I'd like to ask Kenshi how he wants us 
> to proceeed. I suppose that I could immediately prod submitters of bugs dating 
> back to Woody to verify whether their old issue still applies, but what else?

It's first time for me to consist a team in Debian.org.
Infrastructure is ready; we have ML and Subversion, and if we want we
can get wiki page on wiki.debian.net or somewhere.

Next step, how to collaborate? Well, I haven't so strong idea.

I'd like to allow each commiters commit when they want. Of course it's
better to negotiate at ML before commit if fix is very big or functional.

Generally, I should make next upload target date and TODO to fix them.
It's too first to upload CUPS 1.2 to unstable, so I think we'll keep 1.1.23.

I think following are rough target for CUPS:

- - solve important bugs if we can.
- - use debconf to maintain cupsd.conf (if we can)
- - LSB? (if we can)
- - library transition. drop libcupsys2-gnutls10, back
  libcupsys2. And use gnutls12. (big target)

Thanks,
- -- 
Kenshi Muto
kmuto at debian.org
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