Bug#494659: [hplip] Bug#494659: Upstream version 2.8.6 must not be distributed (use 2.8.6b or 2.8.7 instead)
> Some of these changes look substantial - do we have any
> bug reports that
indicate that distributing 2.8.
> 6 is a bad idea?
Agreed. From all accounts 2.8.6 is running well across debian.
The only reason to upgrade lenny to 2.8.6.b is because upstream have asked generally that 2.8.6 not be distributed as they released some early code that they then took out in 2.8.6.b.
Functionally the two versions are supposed to be identical.
Upstream has put additional functionality into 2.8.7. But we are not considering that for lenny and I probably won't package 2.8.7 until we resolve lenny. Ubuntu have allready shipped 2.8.7 and we work with them on common packaging, we both use alioth for debian/
Mark
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