From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OthKt-0003Eu-Hk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:38:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F446E091F; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 13:38:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB097E0882 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 13:38:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.201] (169.151.222.87.dynamic.jazztel.es [87.222.151.169]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C1C561B41D7 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 13:38:28 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] CUPS 1.4 and FFMpeg 0.6 From: Pacho Ramos To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-LQC0QIbnEnz7EOy/JyCz" Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:38:22 +0200 Message-ID: <1284039502.28813.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.2 X-Archives-Salt: 05e7bf2f-89cf-489a-9d1c-d0d3812bd8c1 X-Archives-Hash: 3ece679370bba0398a78493f9cbdf553 --=-LQC0QIbnEnz7EOy/JyCz Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable El jue, 09-09-2010 a las 15:25 +0200, Timo Gurr escribi=C3=B3: > The plan is to release an updated revision incorporating the QA fixes > from bug #332591 (huge thanks to Tom=C3=A1=C5=A1 Chv=C3=A1tal (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). >=20 > As a general rule for upgrading to cups 1.4 when something regarding > local usb printers doesn't work: >=20 > 1. disable kernel usblp: CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=3Dn 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=3D"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 ru= les > setting the device permissions in shape so cups can access the device >=20 > 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=3D"-usb" to get > the old CUPS 1.3 behaviour back. >=20 > 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. >=20 > Regards > Timo Gurr (tgurr) >=20 >=20 Best regards --=-LQC0QIbnEnz7EOy/JyCz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkyI400ACgkQCaWpQKGI+9TsRwCffpKhM7D+zinFgIlQEn88mlBY vOwAnAzaKB7naDEj9SDxZ/bnQ9eSl56A =MDPQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-LQC0QIbnEnz7EOy/JyCz--