[Pkg-cups-devel] Package: splix

[Till Kamppeter]

Andreas Metzler wrote:
> 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:
> ------------------------------------
> 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

Thank you for CCing me. I will look into your changes and take them back 
to Ubuntu as soon as the archives are set up for Intrepid.

    Till