Re: Bug#594322: [Foo2zjs-maintainer] Bug#594322: foo2zjs: Please upgrade to more recent version for Squeeze.

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

On 02/24/2011 03:38 PM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> Le Thursday 24 February 2011 13:12:13 Till Kamppeter, vous avez écrit :
> > OK. Then take the Apport hook into the Debian package and we keep
> > foo2zjs identical on Debian and Ubuntu.
> >
> >      Till
>
> If this is done (and I think it's desirable for Ubuntu), please do it in a
> Distribution-dependent way, see e.g. the foomatic-filters debian/rules:

Yes, I am already doing so in several other packages.

> > derives_from_ubuntu := $(shell (dpkg-vendor --derives-from Ubuntu&&  echo "yes") || echo "no")
> >
> > (…)
> > override_dh_install:
> >          dh_install
> > ifeq ($(derives_from_ubuntu),yes)
> >          install -D -m 644 debian/ubuntu/apport-hook.py $(CURDIR)/debian/foomatic-filters/usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_foomatic-filters.py
> > endif
>
> This way you have one source package, but the binary package gets different
> contents depending on the distribution.

Great, after CUPS, Foomatic, and HPLIP, foo2zjs will be the next package 
which is identical on both Debian and Ubuntu. Ghostscript is also 
already close to this state.

We should also merge system-config-printer from Ubuntu back into Debian 
and make it the standard printer setup tool.

   Till