Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Debian packaging of gutenprint

[Robert Krawitz <rlk@alum.mit.edu>]

   From: "Roger Leigh" <rleigh@codelibre.net>
   Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:48:43 +0000

   Dear all,

   This is just to keep you up to date on what's happening with
   Gutenprint in Debian, particularly with regard to 5.2.x and group
   maintenance ongoing into the future.

Thanks for the update.

   Till, I understand from the Ubuntu changelogs that you are
   maintaining the gutenprint packages in Ubuntu.  It might prove
   useful to also use this repository, given that Ubuntu tracks the
   Debian packages.  It should be possible to cherry-pick specific
   changes, as well as merge easily.

I'm really not a fan of picking specific changes -- it makes life much
more difficult for us upstream, because then we really don't know
exactly what bits people are running if they complain.

If you (or any other distribution) wants to do this, I'd suggest using
EXTRA_VERSION of "-debian_1" or the like so that we know that it's a
version with non-standard changes.  Also, make sure you have someone
subscribed to the list, and preferably with a Sourceforge account that
we can assign bugs to (if someone's using a non-standard release, I
would redirect all bugs against that release to the distribution
maintainer for initial triage).

-- 
Robert Krawitz                                     <rlk@alum.mit.edu>

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