Re: Advice on how best to handle non-backwards compatibility
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:15:59PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 01:55:49PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
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>
> I don't know about converting, but if you mess with my carefuly crafted
> printcap, I will hurt you. :)
Exactly. This is why I'm not really interested in trying to make any
conversions.
> It being a mix of stuff created by lprngtool and apsfilter.
>
> Can't lprngtool just indicate that it can't interpret ones it doesn't
> understand?
I'm going to have to do more testing. In fact, the wider testing the better.
Would you mind grabbing the lprngtool from unstable, and seeing what it says
about your printcap?
The other part of the problem is printcap entries generated with the
lprngtool in stable/testing use a filter that isn't in the lprngtool in
unstable, and this is where the breakage occurs.
Andrew
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