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Recommended replacement driver: +</I>>>>><i> gutenprint" +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> Should we drop it? +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> Does anyone has enough time to see if other drivers in this package +</I>>>>><i> may still be needed? +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> And actually, if we install this package. +</I>>>><i> Also from openprinting, there are security issues fixed in the newest foomatic-filters (needs updated in Mageia 1 and Cauldron, see Bug +</I>>>><i> 3979). They also have a new CUPS filters set that probably needs to be packaged. Upstream notes on it: +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> "Apple decided to not continue to develop and maintain the CUPS filters and backends which are not used by Mac OS X and moved them to +</I>>>><i> OpenPrinting. They also did not accept the new filters for the PDF-based printing workflow as they are also not used by Mac OS X. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> All these filters we continue to maintain now in one package, the OpenPrinting CUPS Filters and announce here the first stable release of +</I>>>><i> this package, versionn 1.0.1." +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> +</I>>><i> As you mentioned it, there are far bigger changes coming than just +</I>>><i> adding a new cups filter package (which is still in beta state AFAIK) +</I>>><i> as that is just smaller fallout from changes explained in below links. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> <A HREF="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.printing.fsg/2020">http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.printing.fsg/2020</A> +</I>>><i> <A HREF="http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/06/cups-1-6-changes-ahead/">http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/06/cups-1-6-changes-ahead/</A> +</I>><i> Yikes, thanks for the links Florian. The future removal of browsing and requirement of avahi is really unfortunate. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> So this work will be needed for when we move to CUPS 1.6, which will be after Mageia 2. Here's a good page that details the work we as a +</I>><i> distro will need to do: +</I>><i> <A HREF="http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/pdf_as_standard_print_job_format">http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/pdf_as_standard_print_job_format</A> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>That's just part of the work, and i've already tried to mention that a few times. +Also in the future for print server discovery avahi would need to run on +the client and on the server, BTW. +</PRE> + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="012145.html">[Mageia-dev] printer-filter-utils +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="012109.html">[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release postfix-2.8.8-1.mga2 +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#12220">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#12220">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#12220">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#12220">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |