Re: ITP: lpr by GNU

[A Mennucc1 <debian@Tonelli.sns.it>]

hi

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 11:19:17PM +0100, Manfred Wassmann wrote:
> 
> It seems that at least the printer databases for CUPS, PDQ and
> lpr* will be shared by the effort at www.linuxprinting.org and
> therefore I think it is advisable to coordinate the development of debian

definitly

and I must say that I hate when people in the OpenSource community
duplicate the efforts (think KDE <-> GNOME)

unfortunately, I have just a vague idea of what PDQ is , and I dont know
CUPS; I am reading http://www.linuxprinting.org/howto/spoolers.html
to find out

if you can work on some of that, we will coordinate the efforts

and maybe a joint working inside Debian will benefit the outside
community as well

> Perhaps we should have a
> printing-policy?

I have been a mantainer for just 9 days, I have never packaged anything,
I dont think that I can yet write a policy.... :-) 

> I just wrote a simple filter to get lpd-o-matic to work with lprng without
> the ugly mfomatic/magicfilter hack. So if there was a foomatic package
> with the printer database and the print filters from linuxprinting.org, it
> could be used with the existing lprng and cups packages.
> However, just as the omni driver, foomatic needs a patched
> ghostscript. Would the gs maintainer provide that?

wonderful... but I didnt understand anything :->

I have to find out what lpd-o-matic is
(actually, I found an lpdomatic in http://www.linuxprinting.org/foomatic.html
and I hope it is the same thing)

I'll be back (but dont hold your breath)

> If nobody wants to package foomatic I could that myself but I must tell
> you I'm not a maintainer yet, just a poor little applicant in the NM
> queue.

I can sponsor the upload of your packages in the meantime


a.

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A Mennucc
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