On Fri 27 Nov 2020 at 18:41:20 +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Dear Printing Team, > > as you will certainly notice from today's upload to Debian unstable, I have > pivoted CUPS' upstream repository away from Apple's to the OpenPrinting fork: > > https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/ > > This fork is an effort by former Apple employee and long-term CUPS author > Michael Sweet, under the OpenPrinting umbrella. > > As Debian maintainer, I was privileged enough to be in the loop for this > effort, and have tried to push all the relevant patches carried by Debian > over > the years [0]. All of them got discussed, most got merged, also thanks to the > untying of CUPS' developement from Apple. I have since used experimental as a > test playground for all the patch suite refactoring process, and am now > really > happy to be able to push this 2.3.3op1 tagged version to unstable. > > Looking forward to seeing whether this exercise really made CUPS better! > > Best of regards, > OdyX > > [0] https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3AOdyX
It is pleasing to see Debian being proactive in keeping the CUPS packages in good shape. I have updated the wiki to reflect the mail from OdyX. https://wiki.debian.org/PrintingGlossaryandIndex#cups https://wiki.debian.org/Printing Regards, Brian.
