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- [email protected] 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). Cheers, Didier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1436172.ZH5aeymEV0@gyllingar
