[Mageia-dev] printer-filter-utils

Mon Feb 20 02:49:34 CET 2012

Am 19.02.2012 15:59, schrieb David Walser:
+> 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 say "This driver is obsolete.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."
+>
+>
+As you mentioned it, there are far bigger changes coming than just
+adding a new cups filter package (which is still in beta state AFAIK)
+as that is just smaller fallout from changes explained in below links.
+
+http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.printing.fsg/2020
+http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/06/cups-1-6-changes-ahead/
+
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