On unresponsive maintainers (was: Re: On using magicfilter and gs)
On Nov 25 2004, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 25 Nov 2004, Rogério Brito wrote:
> > And while I am at it, it seems that this maintainer is a little bit
> > unresponsive, since the other bug that I filed had the same destination,
> > apparently (/dev/null):
> >
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=279266
>
> I think the maintainer has gone away or lost interest; I emailed him
> some time ago about version 2.3 but never got an answer. But it's quite
> easy to compile oneself in /usr/local.
Do you mean version 3.3 of the pcl driver? The output it generates is,
besides correct, way better than what hpijs generates for my printer (an HP
840C).
Anyway, I also got the same impression: the maintainer is simply ignoring
the bugreports.
IMO, since upon upgrading gs is possible to break the printing system, the
package should, at least, inform the user (say, via a debconf warning)
that the new version doesn't include some drivers that used to be included
in older versions.
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