Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (340 mails)

[Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@xxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I appreciate any help regarding HPLIP very much!


On Apr 2 10:47 Raymond Wooninck wrote (shortened):
> On 02/04/09 10:22, Johannes Meixner wrote:
> > I have no longer any time to work on it continuously
> > (in particular no time to upgrade it continuously).
>
> If you don't mind, then I will build the package and then
> perform a submitreq.


As far as I know up to now, submitreq does basically nothing
more than telling me that someone likes to get changes committed
but it does not provide me information whether or not the
changed stuff did successfully build on all architectures.
Therefore in the end a submitreq forces me to do build-tests
on my own.
But since I have no longer any time to work on it continuously
I have also no time to do manual build-tests after a submitreq.


Furthermore having the newest HPLIP only in factory
does not help much for most of our users.

In the past when I had time to work on it continuously
I provided the newest HPLIP in my home project at least
for the current stable openSUSE version and usually
also for the version before and for factory.

This way our normal users find the newest HPLIP version via
http://software.opensuse.org/search
which they can use on their currently running openSUSE.

This way our normal users do not need to do venturous stuff
with factory packages and it avoids that they do nonsense
updates with factory packages on their current stable openSUSE
or even for the openSUSE version before, compare
http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Development/Printer_Enhancement
--------------------------------------------------------------
Under construction for openSUSE 11.1
...
Do not use FACTORY if your system is openSUSE 11.0 or even
older. Use the matching package for your particular system.
FACTORY is not better, it is worse when you have
openSUSE 11.0 or an older system. 
--------------------------------------------------------------


Therefore I would like to suggest that you build
the newest HPLIP for openSUSE 11.0, 11.1, and factory
simply in your home project.

This way you can work independent of me and you won't get
frustrated when your submitreq times out because I simply
have no time to work on them continuously.

I would very much appreciate it when you make your HPLIP
based upon our official source RPM.

I think that this would help me most because then I could
at any time which fits best for me simply make our official
newest HPLIP based upon your HPLIP in your home project.

Additionally - as mentioned above - I think that this way
we get the newest HPLIP very much more tested when it
can be used by our normal users in openSUSE 11.0 and 11.1
so that it helps both our normal users and us.


What do you think?


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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