Re: [Epsonepl-devel] The Foomatic data and the PPDs coming with your "epsonepl" driver package

[Till K. <til...@gm...>]

The removal of execution data from the Foomatic database in the case 
that the driver package has execution data and/or PPDs is intended to 
make the packaging for the distros easier. One can always assume that 
the data coming with the driver is in sync with the driver version, the 
data on the Foomatic site can be outdated when the driver development 
went on  without the driver author giving any notification to us.

So it is always recommended to install the Foomatic data or PPDs which 
come with the driver. So distro packages should contain this data, but 
they should not conflict with foomatic-db. Therefore foomatic-db should 
not contain this data.

So you should upload only printer entries to the BZR repositories of 
foomatic-db and add them to the driver entry which is there (and which 
has an empty command line prototype, so it does not generate PPDs). 
Update driver and option XML files with driver execution info in your 
package.

For getting upload access again, try at first whether you can og in into 
the MediaWiki of the FSG web site with the user name and password which 
you had formerly on linuxprinting.org. If it does not work, register 
with your user name. If the user name is already in use, try the 
"forgotten password" function of the MediaWiki. As you are logged in on 
MediaWiki, tell me your user name and CC Jeff Licquia (jeff at licquia 
dot org) in that mail, so that he sets up write access to our Bazaar 
repositories for you (we have replaced CVS by Bazaar).

See

http://www.freestandards.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/InstructionsForContributors

for how to use our Bazaar repositories.

    Till


Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> --- Till Kamppeter <til...@gm...> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am currently modifying foomatic-db to not contain driver execution 
>> data (data to generate PPDs, the option XMLs and the command line 
>> prototypes in the driver XML files) if the driver supplies this data 
>> (and perhaps also PPDs) already in its source tarball.
>>
>> While I am doing this I have seen that your Foomatic data and especially 
>> the PPDs are outdated. It seems that you have generated everything still 
>> with Foomatic 2.x which was replaced by 3.x years ago.
>>
>> Please replace the foomatic data and the PPDs by the files in the 
>> attached tarballs, to assure that your driver works in current distros 
>> and issue a new release. Thanks.
> 
> Thanks for the files.
> 
> There is a somewhat related and minor issue - since the re-org of 
> linuxprinting.org to I have lost cvs access to foomatic - I think it was 
> meant that we could update the interface XML, etc if we need to change
> the driver foomatic data. 
> (actually what I might be after is what's inside my home directory 
> - which are some back archive of old version of foo2zjs, etc)
> 
> I'll have a look at the PPD files, etc later and see how they differ.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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