[Mageia-dev] printer-filter-utils

Wed Feb 22 14:49:44 CET 2012

Am 20.02.2012 15:00, schrieb David Walser:
+> 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 say "This driver is obsolete.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
+>
+>
+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.
+