[Pkg-cups-devel] cupsys: bug triaging

[Kenshi Muto]

Hi,

At Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:29:22 -0500,
Jeff Licquia wrote:
> > Would it be fair to assume that all modern printer *are* Postscript-compatible 
> > and to move 'gs-esp' to Depends just to avoid that sort of noisy bug report?
> > If yes, then I could logon to SVN and fix this now.
> 
> Modulo the reversal of sense I mentioned earlier, I am strongly for this
> move.
> 
> Very few printers out today do PostScript, and thus nearly all printers
> will require pstoraster.  The design of CUPS is such that it allows
> people to drop PPD files in and expect them to work; while there are
> some situations where this might not be the case, in practical terms
> these will likely be rare with Debian.  Unless, of course, we drop the
> dep on gs-esp, in which case it will be the rare PPD that just works
> with cupsys.
> Some people will continue to complain, because they have to have a
> PostScript renderer on their systems when, technically, they have
> perfectly good ones in their printers.  Compared to the number of people
> who will complain because their printer doesn't work, I think this is
> something we can handle.

Thanks Jeff, your opinion sounds good for me.
I modified the dependency.. now gs-esp becomes Depends: of cupsys.
(Martin, I pinged you some times, but you look busy today?)

I applied many fixes in cupsys, so it's maybe time to upload.
I'll be busy on Thursday, so I'd like to work and upload -12 on tomorrow
night (JST).
It's welcome committers do commit to fix bugs. :)

> Some people object to having two copies of gs on their system: gs-gpl
> for general-purpose stuff, and gs-esp for CUPS.  This is a legitimate
> complaint, and it could be fixed by getting the CUPS raster driver into
> gs-gpl.  Then, an add-on package could provide pstoraster and other
> assorted stuff that would allow cupsys to use gs-gpl to do its work.
> 
> It was my understanding that Easy Software Products was keen on getting
> gdevcups into GPL GhostScript, so ESP GhostScript could go away.  I see

Yep, I talked with Masayuki, gs-esp and gs-gpl maintainer, about
gdevcups.
We're planning to try to apply a patch to gs-gpl.

Thanks,
-- 
Kenshi Muto
kmuto at debian.org