https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784173
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784173#c19
--- Comment #19 from Johannes Meixner 2012-12-19 10:15:43 CET ---
I would very much appreciate it if an openSUSE member
would do this for HPLIP - i.e. release every HPLIP upstream
release officially for openSUSE or release our current hplip
in the "Printing" project also officially for openSUSE.
I care very much that hplip in the "Printing" project
is not only built for Factory but also for recently released
openSUSE versions plus Tumbleweed and (most important for me)
also for our recent business products SELS/SLED="SLE".
Currently hplip in the "Printing" project is available for
Factory, openSUSE 11.4 12.1 12.2, Tumbleweed, SLE11,
SLE11 SP1, SLE11 SP2 - for 32-bit i586 and 64-bit x86_64.
I don't know how the openSUSE process is to officially release
every upstream release for openSUSE but I hope it is easy.
At least there is no packaging work to be done because
the hplip source package exists in the "Printing" project.
What matters for me is that I cannot maintain hplip for openSUSE
(I simply do not at all have time for it) where "maintain" means
to deal with issues (in particular possible regressions) that will
happen for this or that openSUSE user when every HPLIP upstream
release gets officially released for openSUSE.
"Deal with issues" does not mean "fix any bug" but it means
for example to tell openSUSE users to revert to older versions
in case of a regression or to provide instructions how to
work around an issue for example via SDB articles like
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:How_to_set-up_a_HP_printer
See
https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Printing
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The "Printing" project may contain new, upcoming
software. Therefore the packages in the "Printing"
project might neither be in a stable state nor fit
well into currently installed systems.
Have this in mind if you think about to install
packages from the "Printing" project into your
currently running system.
...
The packages in the "Printing" project are
only for testing, without any guarantee
or warranty, and without any support.
As an extreme example, this means if your
complete computer center crashes because
of those packages, it is only your problem.
On the other hand this does not mean that those
packages are known to be terrible broken but
they are not thoroughly tested so that any
unexpected issue can happen.
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Of course the packages in the "Printing" project work for
my limited usage (see comment#12) on my SLE11-SP1 and SLE11-SP2
workstations (I run on my workstations what our business
customers run) but this does not mean very much how those
packages work "for everybody out there".
Deal with the "unexpected issues" is what a hplip maintainer
for openSUSE would have to do and that is what I cannot do and
that is the root cause why I cannot maintain hplip for openSUSE.
On the other hand, if there was a hplip maintainer for openSUSE
I would very much appreciate it and of course I would support
him or her as much as I can.
Furthermore if a hplip maintainer for openSUSE would like to do more,
I could make him or her an additional hplip maintainer in the
"Printing" project so that he or she could directly work on hplip
in the "Printing" project - but I do not mean that he or she
must do this - I only like to show the opportunity.
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