[Mageia-dev] printer-filter-utils

[Florian Hubold]

Am 19.02.2012 15:59, schrieb David Walser:
> Pascal Terjan wrote:
>> I was looking at that package, which is a collection of drivers for
>> some printers, not updated for years
>>
>> It is one of the two packages requiring automake1.4, because of the
>> included	drv_z42
>>
>> Looking on http://www.openprinting.org/driver/drv_z42/ original
>> website no longer exist, and even if openprinting now hosts it they
>> say "This driver is obsolete. Recommended replacement driver:
>> gutenprint"
>>
>> Should we drop it?
>>
>> Does anyone has enough time to see if other drivers in this package
>> may still be needed?
>>
>> And actually, if we install this package.
> Also from openprinting, there are security issues fixed in the newest foomatic-filters (needs updated in Mageia 1 and Cauldron, see Bug 
> 3979).  They also have a new CUPS filters set that probably needs to be packaged.  Upstream notes on it:
>
> "Apple decided to not continue to develop and maintain the CUPS filters and backends which are not used by Mac OS X and moved them to 
> OpenPrinting. They also did not accept the new filters for the PDF-based printing workflow as they are also not used by Mac OS X.
>
> All these filters we continue to maintain now in one package, the OpenPrinting CUPS Filters and announce here the first stable release of 
> this package, versionn 1.0.1."
>
>
As you mentioned it, there are far bigger changes coming than just
adding a new cups filter package (which is still in beta state AFAIK)
as that is just smaller fallout from changes explained in below links.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.printing.fsg/2020
http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/06/cups-1-6-changes-ahead/