[Pkg-cups-devel] RFC: Forming a Printing Task Force (was RFA: cups -- Common UNIX Printing System)

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 03:40:51PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:

>I propose to form a "Printing Task Force" that would join the Debian 
>and Ubuntu forces around common repositories: there is almost never 
>interest in keeping a diff between Debian and Ubuntu. This group would 
>handle the following packages:
>
>	cups
>	ghostscript
>	foomatic-*
>	? other ones ?
>
>Would there be some interest in such a group ?

Yes.  Excellent proposal!


>What other packages would suit ?

poppler
gutenprint
hplip


There is already a Debian Printing team which makes sense to me to use 
(if ok with the gutenprint folks, currently using it alone) instead of 
creating a new platform.


  - Jonas

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