Re: foo2zjs moving to Debian Printing Team maintenance

[Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>]

I have nothing against foo2zjs moving to the Debian Printing Team. It is 
great when it goes there and we can keep it as similar as possible to 
the Ubuntu package (or even make the two packages equal, like CUPS, 
HPLIP, and Foomatic).

Note that the Ubuntu package has a lot of changes compared to upstream. 
This is needed as the author of foo2zjs, Rick Richardson, refuses to 
make the package more distro-friendly. He wants that users compile it by 
themselves, but for most users this is a too complicated task. They want 
to simply install a package, or better have it already installed so that 
the printer sets up automatically when plugged. So I ask all of you that 
you also mail regularly to Rick and ask him for making foo2zjs more 
distro-friendly.

   Till

On 02/07/2011 10:34 PM, Luca Capello wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> As outlined at #594322 [1], Dider Raboud (cc:ed) from the Debian
> Printing Team [2] proposed to move foo2zjs under its umbrellas, also
> considering that Till Kamppeter (cc:ed), the actual Ubuntu maintainer,
> is part of that team [3].
>
> [1]<http://bugs.debian.org/594322>
> [2]<http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Printing>
> [3]<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532097#28>
>
> Now that squeeze is out I am preparing a new upload which will be, if
> not completely, at least quite close to the version in Ubuntu (maveryck
> has 20100728-0ubuntu1 while natty 20100728-0ubuntu2).  At the same time,
> I will set the Maintainers: field to the Debian Printing Team, thus
> officially moving maintenance there.  This also because the HL Color
> LaserJet 1500L printer I had partially stopped working after the last
> summer: there is no more color printing and even the B/W is sometime
> weird (the drum is scratched).
>
> My first reply to Didier's suggestion never reached the BTS (the error
> email was hidden in my INBOX, I will re-send it and check with the BTS
> admins), so given that there is no public statement from the actual
> co-maintainers (Steffen and Michael cc:ed), I am asking now if there is
> any reason to not move the package to the Debian Printing Team.
>
> Please note that if no one will reply within two weeks, I will consider
> that as an agreement and I will go on ;-)
>
> Thx, bye,
> Gismo / Luca