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Bug#532097: [Pkg-cups-devel] RFC: Forming a Printing Task Force (was RFA: cups -- Common UNIX Printing System)



On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <didier@raboud.com> wrote:
> I don't intend to fingerpoint specific people or teams, but the situation is
> worrying : some unresolved security issues, many RC bugs, tons of bugs, an
> increasing diff with Ubuntu, etc.
>
> I propose to form a "Printing Task Force" that would join the Debian and Ubuntu
> forces around common repositories: there is almost never interest in keeping a
> diff between Debian and Ubuntu.

At least in the case of CUPS and CUPS-PDF, maintenance is already
common between both distributions. IIRC,  foomatic is also maintained
by the same people in both distributions. AFAIK only Ghostscript is
handled separately.

What's actually needed is someone with the patience to triage all
outstanding bugs, especially those that are misclassified and assigned
to the wrong package - which especially seems to be the case at Ubuntu
- and to point the maintainer towards overlooked patches, etc.

Dealing with printer-specific bugs is a particularly daunting task and
one that few of us have had the patience to deal with. Likewise,
dealing with distribution-specific bugs caused by security patches and
system hardening mechanisms is rather tedious.

Getting help for these items would already solve most of the current
mess we are in.

Martin-Éric



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