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Dne 9.9.2010 15:25, Timo Gurr napsal(a): |
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> The plan is to release an updated revision incorporating the QA fixes |
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> from bug #332591 (huge thanks to Tomáš Chvátal (scarabeus) for doing |
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> the actual work here!) |
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> Apart from that there's no real showstopper blocking a stabilization |
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> of CUPS 1.4. The printing guide could need an update though, I've |
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> already started working on it but my time is limited. |
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> Regarding stabilization we can't respect printer drivers which are not |
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> in the official tree since the few ones which are in are already hard |
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> to maintain with our low manpower, see foo2zjs for example (hplip is |
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> in a great shape thanks to the massive work of Daniel Pielmeier |
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> (billie) and gutenprint should be fine, too). |
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> |
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> As a general rule for upgrading to cups 1.4 when something regarding |
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> local usb printers doesn't work: |
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> 1. disable kernel usblp: CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=n |
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> 2. delete /etc/cups |
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> 3. (re-)install cups 1.4 with USE="usb" |
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> 4. configure printer(s) from scratch via the cups webinterface |
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> 5. if your printer is a multifunction device, be sure you got the udev rules |
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> setting the device permissions in shape so cups can access the device |
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> |
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> If for whatever reason (broken/old printer drivers) that doesn't work |
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> out there's still the way to install CUPS 1.4 with USE="-usb" to get |
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> the old CUPS 1.3 behaviour back. |
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> |
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> The printing team is suffering low manpower. We also have a bunch of |
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> open bugs which are probably invalid and caused by not following the |
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> "upgrade path", broken drivers, or plain misconfiguration, but you |
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> can't close them without investigation to not upset our users. Not |
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> responding is quite as bad, but as I said above, this is due to lack |
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> of time. |
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> Regards |
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> Timo Gurr (tgurr) |
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> |
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Since you guys again talk about stabling something, i added -r1 again. |
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This time with really trimmed patches that fixes only build time issues |
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or some issue i experienced localy. |
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Feel free to rework that patches before stabling it :) |
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Cheers |
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Tomas |
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