RFC: Enhancements in the hplip packaging
Hi dear HPLIP maintainers,
(Please CC me on replies, I'm not subscribed to pkg-hpijs-devel@l.a.d.o)
several times recently, I took a dive into the HPLIP packaging (in
particular for #649991, and now for #655424) and each time I did so, I
found it hard to work with.
So here I am to propose discussions around some enhancements. Although
I don't intend to enforce any of those without consent from the current
maintainers (of course), I am willing to propose patches for each of
those.
* Put hplip under the Debian Printing Team umbrella
This doesn't imply any of the other enhancements, just having
everything printing-related referred to under the same e-mail address.
* Convert source package to 3.0 (quilt)
This implies going away from (deprecated) dpatch towards quilt and
getting rid of weirdo dpkg-source exclusion patterns.
* Reduce debian/rules to use more debhelper/dh magic
This would vastly reduce the complexity of debian/rules (see e.g. the
installation of linda+lintian files and all the manual files
installations). This would also probably help towards solving #655424).
* Migrate away from Svn to Git
Personally, I'm much more comfortable with Git than with SVN, but I
understand it's a personal question. Migrating away from SVN wouldn't
mean loosing the package history (see e.g. the foo2zjs packaging
repository).
* Add myself as co-maintainer
... If you think it's wise.
So? Opinions?
Cheers,
OdyX
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