Re: FW: Bug#695401: ITP: cups-bjnp
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 11:35:45PM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>
> Le vendredi, 7 décembre 2012 22.15:15, Joe Nahmias a écrit :
> > I submitted the following ITP before I realized that there was a printing
> > team in Debian. Would it be appropriate to include it as maintained by
> > the group?
>
> Sure it would! It helps keeping the pool of printing-related packages together
> and shares the maintenance load.
It wasn't clear to me from the wiki page [0] whether a cups-related
package is in scope for the team. Done.
[0] http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Printing
> It'd be great if you happened to maintain your package in git and could push
> it to alioth, see http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Git
Done. See http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/cups-bjnp.git
> > FYI, I have prepared a preliminary package available via:
> > $ dget -u http://joe.nahmias.net/cups-bjnp_1.2-1.dsc
> > (…)
> > Any comments or suggestions are appreciated.
>
> Okay, there we go:
>
> * Lintian gave me an informational error:
> cups-bjnp: spelling-error-in-binary usr/lib/cups/backend/bjnp
> recieved received
> This could be fixed by patching.
Done. Will send upstream as well.
> * binary package name: I would tend to name it something like
> cups-backend-bjnp, to make it more descriptive.
Should I use this name or printer-driver-bjnp as suggested in a previous
email?
> * description: how it was done (reverse engineering) isn't of much interest
> for users.
I disagree, it implies that the driver may be incomplete and not work in
all situations / configurations. IMO, that is useful information to a
potential user.
> * content: TODO isn't useful in a binary package. Same for that small AUTHORS.
Done.
> * standards-version: we have a new version of Debian policy: 3.9.4 :-)
Done.
> Cheers, and welcome in the Printing Team :-)
Thanks,
> OdyX
--Joe
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