Usually, I follow this rule, but in Ubuntu (where I am printing maintainer for)
I also want to have up-to-date packages (in terms of upstream releases), and
that for each of the every-six-months releases.
If Debian's package maintainers do not update unstable (or at least
experimental) frequently enough I have to go forward and introduce a new
upstream release Ubuntu-first. This often happens, especially also due to
Debian's 2-year release cycle and freeze time windows of Debian and Ubuntu no
necessarily being to the same time.
And having a printer driver (hardware enablement) package being 2 years old in a
leading distro with a 6-month release cycle is especially bad. Such packages
could even have releases after the release of the distro itself to support new
hardware ...
Till
On 3/12/25 11:55, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
Is there any specific reason why this package doesn't follow the usual "Debian
unstable first, then merge to Ubuntu" development cycle?
- Fabian
On Sat, 1 Mar 2025 17:38:43 +0100 Till Kamppeter <till.kamppe...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> It should be easy, just porting over the current Ubuntu package,
> 3.24.4+dfsg0-0ubuntu4.
>
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hplip/3.24.4+dfsg0-0ubuntu4
>
