As a datapoint I had some problems accessing a usb printer from cups 1.4 (it 
just was not found, and a strange generic and unusable device appeared 
instead). No bug though since I had to print in a hurry and downgraded to 1.3 
again quickly...

Cheers, a

Am Donnerstag 09 September 2010, 10:20:00 schrieb Christian Faulhammer:
> Hi,
> 
> a security stabilisation for Chromium [1] wants Cups 1.4 stable.  My
> test requests on Planet Gentoo and via identi.ca revealed no real
> blockers, although people report that they needed to readd their
> printers in order to work.  Does anybody here know an obstacle to the
> stabilisation?  And should a news item issued for that?
> 
> The same goes for FFMpeg 0.6, although it is needed for a security
> stabilisation of VLC [2].  There is one open bug which still needs to be
> resolved, otherwise I had no reports of problems so far.
> 
> V-Li
> 
> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335750
> [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332361


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