Bug#847949: RFS: brother-inkjet-dcpj952n/3.0.0-2 [ITP] -- printer driver for Brother Inkjet printers
On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 7:19 PM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org> wrote:
> Le mardi, 13 décembre 2016, 18.46:41 h CET Roger Shimizu a écrit :
>> Already pushed to alioth, latest commit are in branch mentors.
>
> Great. But… :-)
>
> It would be nice if you could take a look at these references (in increasing
> order of importance):
> * https://wiki.debian.org/DebianFrance/NewContributorGame#Packagers_for_non-free_Brother_printer_drivers
> * https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2015/Projects/Packaging of further non-
> free printing drivers
> * https://github.com/illwieckz/debian_copyist_brother/
Thanks for those references!
I also find this page:
- https://github.com/illwieckz/debian_copyist_brother/tree/master/material/sources
I didn't know there were so many packages from Brother ..
However I think there may be more Japan local models with unique drivers.
I'll try to collect those drivers.
BTW. What's the result of GSoC2015, other than the github repo above?
It'd be great if there's some progress ..
> Where I'm going to, is that I wonder if we could not have a wider packaging
> work around the Brother drivers: they come in vastly different forms, but
> bundle essentially a wide set of mostly-identical scripts. Many of these
> scripts assume they are installed in /opt and also assume 'lpd' is still the
> printer server in use.
>
> As you mentionned:
>> I don't understand what does the script "cupswrapper/cupswrapperdcpj952n"
>> use for, so just keep as it is.
>
> Well. That script is doing dangerous things, and is supposed to be run as
> root. It should not be shipped in the binary package, if it's not necessary.
> If it is, it should be (heavily) patched.
Understand.
> That amounts to saying I don't think the package as packaged currently is
> really suitable for Debian main.
Yes. So I guess it's better to remove my repo from alioth.
> Given the amount of Brother drivers out there, it would be nice to address
> this in an "across-the-board" way.
>
> How do you foresee this?
If supporting all Brother models is too difficult task, I think it'd
be better if we can get drivers of a few "popular" models into Debian
main (or non-free if main is not right place).
Cheers,
--
Roger Shimizu, GMT +9 Tokyo
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