http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514994 User jsmeix@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514994#c7 --- Comment #7 from Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@novell.com> 2009-09-16 02:26:21 MDT --- It must wait after openSUSE 11.2 is done because up to this time I need the stuff in the Printing project to be exactly what there is currently in Factory/11.2 because the Printing project is currently the development project for openSUSE 11.2 and when 11.2 is finished, the Printing project becomes the development project for the next openSUSE version. FYI: For the next openSUSE version I like to spilt Gutenprint away from the huge cups-drivers package because Gutenprint is a project on its own and I like to have the packages according to the upstream projects. I would very much appreciate it when you could make your Gutenprint as a separated stand-alone "gutenprint" package and not as sub-package of the huge cups-drivers package. I want to be as much in compliance with upstream as possible. This means in particular to avoid all Suse-specific patches. For example - as far as I know - the Gutenprint main author may in particular not like our "A4" patch, because on gimp-print-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Robert Krawitz wrote: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- At least a few distributions that I'm aware of (some versions of SUSE and PCLinuxOS) apply a patch to printers.xml that force margins on letter, legal, and A4-size paper to work around a problem in 5.0.0 that we later fixed correctly. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (Actually we apply a patch to "papers.xml" files.) A Gutenprint version upgrade as a new stand-alone package "gutenprint" is the perfect chance to drop all our own patches to enforce a hard reset back to 100% compliance with upstream. Just provide it "as is". Then let's see if we get bug reports. Don't worry, it is me who gets all "Printing" bugs by default ;-) I did such a hard reset back to 100% compliance with upstream already in the past for sane-backends and guess what: I got no single bug report at all because of this. I guess what they do at upstream is actually not so bad ;-) I think that this would help me most because then I could at any time which fits best for me simply make our official "gutenprint" based upon your "gutenprint" in your home project. Additionally I think that this way we get it much more tested when it can right now already be used by our normal users even with openSUSE 11.0 and 11.1 so that in the end it helps both our normal users and us. Again many thanks for your work! -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.