Till Kamppeter wrote:
The cupsys packages (and all occurences of cupsys in the names of
other packages) should be renamed to cups. First, no one who I have
asked could tell me why in Debian and derivatives the CUPS package is
called cupsys and not cups. Second, this is very awkward when it comes
to user support (You do not know the user's distro and tell him
/etc/init.d/cups restart) and when trying to create
distro-independent LSB-based printing-related packages, like printer
drivers from a printer manufacturer.
I am the leader of the OpenPrinting project at the Linux Foundation
and I have developed the LSB DDK to create distro-independent driver
packages. The RPM macros which I have created to generate maintainer
scripts which work with both Debian and non-Debian distros look really
ugly. So cupsys should really be renamed.
As the person responsible for the name of the package, I thought I
should comment.
This was discussed on debian-legal, way back. Here's the start of the
thread:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/1999/06/msg00182.html
Note that I specifically was warned against using the name cups for
the package. I even recall that some people thought cupsys was too
close to cups for comfort, though I don't see those responses in the
thread.
I think we've had more experience with this issue since (Iceweasel), and
the upstream maintainer has shown reasonableness regarding this issue.
So I wouldn't object to name changes.
No comment on the important priority, though. :-)
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