Bug#532097: #532097: cups RFA -> RFH
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Bastien,
>
> Le samedi, 9 mars 2013 14.17:27, Bastien ROUCARIES a écrit :
>> I will step on it. Please coule web have a debian todo list and how to ?
>
> Great, thanks for the offer. All that we have as far as I'm concerned are:
>
> a) http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Printing (mostly outdated)
>
> I have just updated it rapidly, to match the reality a little more. It would
> need more love and cleaning, feel free to give a hand there.
>
> and
>
> b) http://bugs.debian.org/src:cups
> http://bugs.debian.org/debian-printing@lists.debian.org
>
> of course. Unfortunately we have many unanswered bugs laying around: verifying
> if they are still valid under more up-to-date Debian+cups configurations would
> be very useful.
>
>> Personnally i will like to have cups drop root
>
> Although I find it unfortunate, I think that both Martin Pitt's [0] and
> upstream's [1] explanations make it sufficiently clear that engaging on such a
> road is a promise for _lot_ of work. Furthermore, that would be work not
> supported by upstream in any foreseeable future ot by any other distribution
> out there.
>
> [0] http://bugs.debian.org/692791#86
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/692791#61
>
> So unless other distributions join that long-term effort of maintaining a
> whole load of patches against cups, I would oppose such an effort.
Ok I will try to add more distro on the way.
could we add user-tags for bug report (in order to better triagging) ?
I will add some wiki page for debugging printing problem.
> But, I very much welcome any (and yours, of course) help in coping with the
> bugreports (past and new) and the next cups releases. I very much welcome
> bugreports with patches attached.
>
> Cheers,
>
> OdyX
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