El jue, 09-09-2010 a las 15:25 +0200, Timo Gurr escribió: > The plan is to release an updated revision incorporating the QA fixes > from bug #332591 (huge thanks to Tomáš Chvátal (scarabeus) for doing > the actual work here!)
Great! Thanks a lot to all people involved :-D > Apart from that there's no real showstopper blocking a stabilization > of CUPS 1.4. The printing guide could need an update though, I've > already started working on it but my time is limited. > Regarding stabilization we can't respect printer drivers which are not > in the official tree since the few ones which are in are already hard > to maintain with our low manpower, see foo2zjs for example (hplip is > in a great shape thanks to the massive work of Daniel Pielmeier > (billie) and gutenprint should be fine, too). > > As a general rule for upgrading to cups 1.4 when something regarding > local usb printers doesn't work: > > 1. disable kernel usblp: CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=n Wouldn't be possible to add a kernel config check to the ebuild? > 2. delete /etc/cups > 3. (re-)install cups 1.4 with USE="usb" > 4. configure printer(s) from scratch via the cups webinterface > 5. if your printer is a multifunction device, be sure you got the udev rules > setting the device permissions in shape so cups can access the device > > If for whatever reason (broken/old printer drivers) that doesn't work > out there's still the way to install CUPS 1.4 with USE="-usb" to get > the old CUPS 1.3 behaviour back. > > The printing team is suffering low manpower. We also have a bunch of > open bugs which are probably invalid and caused by not following the > "upgrade path", broken drivers, or plain misconfiguration, but you > can't close them without investigation to not upset our users. Not > responding is quite as bad, but as I said above, this is due to lack > of time. > > Regards > Timo Gurr (tgurr) > > Best regards
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