>>>>> Jeff Licquia <licquia@debian.org> writes:
> I'm leaving Thursday on a vacation, and will be back a week from
> Friday. I'll stick the latest foomatic tarball on the laptop and see
> if I get inspired by the beach sand.
Cool.
It may be instructive to look at the RPM spec [ Till, please send him
your spec, it doesn't seem to be in CVS ].
The main headaches are these:
- Dependencies on a million Perl modules. I think these are mostly
done and in unstable.
- System dependencies defined in Defaults.pm. Originally the default
Defaults.pm was based on my potato system, but the defaults may be
a tad Mandrakish these days...
- The C helper program. This just means that it's not a noarch as it
used to be.
- The /var bit. Last I knew, the library cached computed data in a
parallel cache tree next to the source data. Since that stuff
really belongs in /var, I think we made those locations symlinks
into /var/foomatic/blah rather than adjusting the library to do the
right thing.
- No real version numbering or releases. The bulk of foomatic is a
set of constantly updated data files. There are also external
datasets that people can add to their installation (from
gimp-print, omni, etc). I think Manfred's package was using a
timestamp or something.
Oh - you get 100 bonus points if you can make the various spoolers in
Debian automagically convert configurations when you switch spoolers.
Foomatic has all that logic now, thanks to Till...
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