Please allow foomatic-gui, foomatic-filters-ppds in sarge
Please consider allowing the following two packages to transition into
sarge after the regular delay:
foomatic-gui: Added translation of debconf template to Japanese
(#307002); ensure /etc/cups/printers.conf is created if no queues
exist yet (severity important: #306812).
foomatic-filters-ppds: Fix printer options on all PostScript PPD
files--without this fix, printer options (duplex, resolution, etc.)
are not honored, which will annoy users (severity important: #299513).
You may also want to consider reportbug, which had a few annoying
(but, IIRC, not important) bugs in 3.8 that are fixed by 3.11. I am
working on a 3.12 that has more extensive bug fixes, but nothing (IMO)
particularly important for sarge. The only exception might be the
deeply annoying "vi decides to be the default editor" semi-bug* that
traps new users (latest iteration: #299172)... a solution to which
might justify a sarge-specific upload.
* Essentially, some task seems to pull in vim, so newbies get shoved
into vim by anything that calls sensible-editor, including reportbug
(which uses the editor alternative, where vim is given a higher
priority than nano). Potential solutions: nag newbies who are using
vim via sensible-editor so they change the alternative; call nano
instead of sensible-editor if no $EDITOR/$VISUAL set in novice mode;
get someone to fix vim to have a lower priority; get vim out of
whatever task pulls it in. I don't care which solution is used, but
I'm sick and tired of seeing 299172-like bugs.
Chris
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Chris Lawrence <lawrencc@debian.org> - http://blog.lordsutch.com/
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