[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#511009: foomatic 4.0?

[Chris Lawrence]

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Bdale Garbee <bdale at gag.com> wrote:
> I raised the severity on cups bug #511009 yesterday to release-critical,
> since the move from postscript to pdf as the default cups output format
> broke all of my printers.
>
> As Keith Packard noted in a follow-up to the bug, it appears that
> foomatic 4.0 adds support for pdf input.  So, updating the foomatic
> version in sid may be the best fix for this bug.
>
> I see you're the maintainer of foomatic-db and friends.  When do you
> plan to upgrade the Debian packages to foomatic 4.0 or later?  Are there
> other issues with that, or has it just not gotten attention yet?  If the
> latter, would you like some help?

I have some 4.0 packages prepared and I plan to upload them in the
next day or so as soon as I'm sure I updated everything properly
(there were some big changes in the 3.x->4.x transition which make at
least one package go from arch: all to arch: any; I also want to make
sure I got all the dependencies right so a mixed 3.x/4.x installation
can't happen but full upgrades will work).  I have a RL project I need
to finish this afternoon and then I should be able to square away
foomatic.


Chris