[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#681851: escputil: requires module usblp which is blacklisted by CUPS
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
odyx at debian.org
Tue Jul 24 07:09:27 UTC 2012
Hi Martin,
thanks for your feedback,
Le samedi, 21 juillet 2012 16.41:48, Martin Pitt a écrit :
> For the record -- there are no real Debian cups maintainers at the
> moment. Till is working on Ubuntu, and I haven't had an actual printer
> (nor real interest in it) for several years now. Unfortunately the RFA
> [1] has not gotten any action in three years :(
Yeah. I'm aware of that; sad situation. That said, the Printing Team's
situation is not vastly better: Jonas maintains ghostprint, Roger maintains
gutenprint (orphaned), I'm doing the rest and Till is our Ubuntu gateway guy.
So I'm not sure there's much available manpower there either.
> It might actually be better to formally orphan the package in Debian
> to point this out more clearly. I'm still happy to sponsor Till's
> uploads into Debian, as I believe that so far this was better than
> letting it bitrot for several years.
Fully agreed; thanks for your continuous work! (Now that Wheezy is frozen, it
also makes full sense to upload every Ubuntu package in experimental first.)
Now for Wheezy, I can't have a solid enough on the changes introduced after
1.5.3-1. 1.5.3-2 didn't migrate because the mips build failed; I suspect this
can be solved by a build on (currently down) ball.debian.org.
Till: are there atomic changes done since 1.5.3-1 that would be worth
integrating into Wheezy? I'm willing to prepare a 1.5.3-2+wheezy0 that would
revert 1.5.3-2 and add the smallest amount of changes towards wheezy if that
helps giving Wheezy a better cups. (Keeping in mind that the Release Team will
review the diff between 1.5.3-1 and whatever we want in wheezy.)
Finally, #640939 should probably be fixed in Wheezy and we should avoid
letting #682426 enter Wheezy either.
Thanks for reading,
OdyX
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