[Mageia-dev] printer-filter-utils

Mon Feb 20 15:00:16 CET 2012

Florian Hubold wrote:
+> 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 say "This driver is obsolete.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/
+
+Yikes, thanks for the links Florian.  The future removal of browsing and requirement of avahi is really unfortunate.
+
+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 
+distro will need to do:
+http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/pdf_as_standard_print_job_format
+
+