[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#681851: escputil: requires module usblp which is blacklisted by CUPS

[Martin Pitt]

Didier 'OdyX' Raboud [2012-07-20  8:25 +0200]:
> Dear CUPS maintainers,
> 
> as far as I understand our buglist, lifting the usblp blacklisting in Wheezy 
> as was done in src:cups 1.5.3-4 would probably solve #681851 in 
> src:gutenprint, #663868 in src:foo2zjs .
> 
> But a) cups FTBFS on mips since 1.5.3-2, and b), the 1.5.3-3 diff is probably 
> too big for Wheezy. So what are your plans for wheezy ?

For the record -- there are no real Debian cups maintainers at the
moment. Till is working on Ubuntu, and I haven't had an actual printer
(nor real interest in it) for several years now. Unfortunately the RFA
[1] has not gotten any action in three years :(

It might actually be better to formally orphan the package in Debian
to point this out more clearly. I'm still happy to sponsor Till's
uploads into Debian, as I believe that so far this was better than
letting it bitrot for several years.

Thanks,

Martin

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/532097
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