[Pkg-cups-devel] Package: splix

[Andreas Metzler]

In article <47EAD93A.8030608 at freenet.de> (gmane.linux.debian.devel.general) you wrote:
> Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 06:59:01PM +0100, Patrick Ringl wrote:
[...]
>>> the last upload of that package was at the beginning of 2007 - meanwhile 
>>> there have been 4 upstream releases since that time. I'd like to know 
>>> what happened to the package and in case the maintainer is not 
>>> responding in time, and if nobody objects - I'd like to take the package 
>>> over.

>> Go ahead, I added it because I own such printer, but the bugs that were
>> reported were with different models I could not test myself.
[...]
>> If you'd also be able to get cups-ddk in, to make the package more like
>> the Debian way and regenerate all generated files, that'd be extra great.

> I asked pkg-cups for joining in order to package cups-ddk aswell. Since 
> I am not a DD myself, it'd be kind if you sponsored the new splix 
> package once I am done.

Hello,

following up to
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-cups-devel/2008-March/005113.html
it looks like now it would be possible to have an updated splix
package in Debian, since cupsddk is available.

I have taken the Ubuntu package and applied a little bit of fine
tuning. Diff against ubuntu:
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splix (1.1.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * upload to Debian, merge from Ubuntu.
  * New upstream version. Closes: #457650
    - Fixes printing on ML-2010 Closes: #439817,#455795
  * Fix lintian errors:
    - Do not ignore errors on $(MAKE) clean.
    - Standards-Version: 3.7.3, no changes required.
  * Use Homepage control field.
  * Make use of dh_installdirs instead of invoking mkdir directly.
  * [10_fixbashism.dpatch] Fix bashisms in ppd/compile.sh.
  * Allow building of packages with jbig-support by specifying withjbig1 as
    part of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
  * add watch file
------------------------------------

Available from http://www.bebt.de/debian/splix/

I *think* the package is good for an upload. I have not actually done
one for these reasons:
* Other people had voiced interest earlier.
* I do not speak C++ at all.
* I cannot test it currently. (The splix using computer is offline
  currently.)

Anyway, perhaps there is somebody who can take it up from here, I
might be willing to sponsor.
cu andreas
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