[Mageia-dev] printer-filter-utils

Sun Feb 19 15:59:35 CET 2012

Pascal Terjan wrote:
+> I was looking at that package, which is a collection of drivers for
+> some printers, not updated for years
+> 
+> It is one of the two packages requiring automake1.4, because of the
+> included	drv_z42
+> 
+> Looking on http://www.openprinting.org/driver/drv_z42/ original
+> website no longer exist, and even if openprinting now hosts it they
+> say "This driver is obsolete. Recommended replacement driver:
+> gutenprint"
+> 
+> Should we drop it?
+> 
+> Does anyone has enough time to see if other drivers in this package
+> may still be needed?
+> 
+> And actually, if we install this package.
+
+Also from openprinting, there are security issues fixed in the newest foomatic-filters (needs updated in Mageia 1 and Cauldron, see Bug 
+3979).  They also have a new CUPS filters set that probably needs to be packaged.  Upstream notes on it:
+
+"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 
+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.
+
+All these filters we continue to maintain now in one package, the OpenPrinting CUPS Filters and announce here the first stable release of 
+this package, versionn 1.0.1."
+
+