On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 21:29 +0000, Till Kamppeter wrote: > Saïvann and Jeremy, thank you very much for doing this awkward task of > packaging these drivers. Debianizing the Brother drivers in a > distribution-friendly way was much more complex than debianizing a > typical free software application. So you have learned already a lot to > get MOTU already with these packages. I liked very much sponsoring the > upload of your packages and supporting your effort. > I wish I would have had the time to do more. Fortuanatly I've found employment in an opensource friendly/contributing company. However our own projects always come first and these are primarly tools to make the lives of administrators easier, and in technical support for customers. > The original drivers are really not well designed for being shipped with > a distro, and this made me adding several points to my driver design > guidelines at OpenPrinting: > > https://www.linux- > foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/WritingAndPackagingPrinterDrivers > > Saïvann, Jeremy, would you also like to make distribution-independent, > LSB-based packages of the Brother drivers? These would be uploaded onto > the OpenPrinting server and then arbitrary (LSB-compliant) distros can > automatically download them when a Brother printer gets discovered. > If time permits I'd love to. I have done some RPM packaging in the past, but my LSB knowledge is not up to date. I won't consider myself an active developer on any of these. but if time warrants I'll be happy to participate.
Jeremy -- NEW PACKAGE: Printer drivers for Brother needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25966 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
