On 01/17/2014 07:02 PM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Hi Till, > > Le vendredi, 17 janvier 2014, 13.19:06 Till Kamppeter a écrit : >> I have released cups-filters 1.0.44 upstream and updated the Debian >> GIT repo appropriately. > > Nice, thanks. > >> In addition, I have split two binary packages to allow a low-footprint >> printing stack on mobile devices, the "level 2" on >> >> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/client-1305-printing-sta >> ck-with-mobile-in-mind > > I would really have appreciated a public discussion here on debian- > printing@l.d.o before seeing extensive split patches applied on the > packaging repository, which just make me feel like an uploading-monkey > for Ubuntu purposes now; mind you, these are also Debian packages. This > earlier discussion would have opened options about binary package names, > etc. > > That said, I don't disagree with the general goal, or with the split, > but really, if you want to maintain cups and cups-filters "in Debian > first" (which is great, I absolutely welcome that, it reduces the > workload for everyone), then you also need to do it the "Debian way", > which implies discussion with or within the concerned package > maintainers _before_ doing extensive changes. > >> Now, by installing avahi-daemon, cups-daemon, cups-ppd-less, >> cups-browsed, cups-filters-ppd-less, poppler-utils, and the libraries >> pulled in by these one gets a printing stack in the order of two-digit >> megabytes, without the bulk of drivers and PPD files. > > In particular, I find the -ppd-less postfix absolutely awful; in english > it would (as far as my l10n-en skills go) stand as "-ppdless" anyway. > Also, it describes what it doesn't do, rather than describing what it > does. Something like -coreprotocols, -core, -minimal, -direct or even > -ppdless would sound way better. My personal preference would go for > "-direct", but let's discuss! > >> OdyX, the changes are in the Debian GIT repos of CUPS and cups-filters >> now. Can you upload the packages to Debian so that they sync into >> Ubuntu? Can you also check whether I did the splitting correctly? > > Besides the naming issue above: > > * Replaces and Breaks need to be "<<" the version that is uploaded, aka > 1.0.44-1, not "<=" the latest uploaded version. People out there could > have rebuilt cups-filters without the split; see Debian Policy §7.6.1. > * You have created new changelog entries without replicating earlier > changes (some of which fix bugs, which come automagically with git-dch > --meta). > I have certainly already mentionned this to you; I prefer to generate > (+ hand-edit) changelog entries using git-dch at release time (this > makes backporting, reverting, etc easier). So if you don't stick to > this, please at least make sure to replicate my changelog entries) > > I will fix the two above problems and upload as soon as we can find an > agreement on a nicer postfix than -ppd-less (and when cups 1.7.1-2 will > have migrated to testing).
Sorry for simply committing it this way. For the debian/changelog I was also wondering why there were changes in "git log" which are not represented by the debian/changelog. I do not know how they got lost in my copy of the repo (or how they did not make it into it). For the name for the new binary packages I am also a little bit in doubt, -minimal is also not good as there is the smaller level-1 configuration of no drivers/filters at all. The new packages are for a configuration with a minimum support for directly talking to printers. As filters for PDF, PostScript, PWG Raster, and PCL are also certain printer drivers perhaps we should say something like -basic-drivers? Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-printing-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52d975ea.5060...@gmail.com
