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 say "This driver is obsolete.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/