Re: Debian patches for pxljr
If you want it to work that way, please supply a proper autoconf/automake patch whereby it would work if system libijs or lib ijs-header is not present.
Thanks.
--- On Tue, 20/9/11, Didier Raboud <odyx@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Hin-Tak Leung,
>
> as you might have noticed, your pxljr [0] has been included
> in Debian [1], and
> is now maintained under the "Debian Printing Team" [2]
> umbrella.
>
> As the latest pxljr tarball I could download contained both
> libjpeg and libijs
> embedded copies and as we, as distributors, really dislike
> embedded copies, I
> repacked your tarball [3] to drop those copies and added a
> patch [4] to
> correctly compile the remaining files into a working driver
> (confirmed working
> on both Debian and Ubuntu).
>
> Do you think it would be possible to release a new upstream
> version with both
> modifications included: the repacking and the new
> buildsystem patch? That would
> certainly benefit other distributors and bring Debian
> closer to your work.
>
> Cheers, on behalf of the Debian Printing Team,
>
> Didier Raboud, aka OdyX
>
> [0] http://hp-pxl-jetready.sourceforge.net/
> [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/pxljr
> [2] http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Printing
> [3] http://cdn.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/pxljr/pxljr_1.3+repack0.orig.tar.bz2
> [4] http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/pxljr/1.3+repack0-1/add_simple_buildsystem.patch
>
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