Re: Submitting fixes to ptouch-driver
On Thu 09 Apr 2015 at 21:07:13 +0100, Philip Pemberton wrote:
> Hi,
Hello Philip,
> I've been working on a number of fixes to ptouch-driver, which are
> currently hosted in a Mercurial repository on Bitbucket:
>
> https://bitbucket.org/philpem/printer-driver-ptouch/commits
>
> These commits (everything past "update tags") are enough to get the
> driver to work with my system (admittedly this is Ubuntu 14.10, though I
> can set up a Debian VM fairly quickly). I've tested with two printers: a
> QL-500 and a PT-2450DX.
>
> At this point the only thing I can't test is a QL-series printer with an
> auto cutter, as I don't have one available. Ideally, the driver needs
> two more tweaks to make it "perfect", but in its current state it's usable:
> * Remove the "determined by page size" option from "roll-fed media"
> * Remove the "Advance Media" option; "Advance at the end of the job"
> is the only option which generates valid feed control codes.
> * Do a bit of work with Quilt so that a source package can be built too.
>
> I'd like to find someone with a QL-series printer with an auto-cutter to
> test that functionality (print a few labels to check that auto-cut works
> on QL series printers for single and multiple labels), and then I'd like
> to look at getting my changes reviewed and included in Debian. How do I
> go about doing that?
I have contacted the submitter of #781025 via the bug report to make
him aware of your mail. The same venue would be suitable as a point
of contact.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=%23781025
> I suspect I need to submit patches; is there a preferred format for these?
>
> I also noticed there was a Git repository on Alioth for this package;
> would some form of Git export be preferred to patches?
Sorry, I cannot answer your other queries.
Regards,
Brian.
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