Re: [Gimp-print-devel] 5.2.15

[Robert K. <rl...@al...>]

On Sun, 09 Jun 2019 20:24:30 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Robert Krawitz <rl...@al...> writes:
>
>> On Sun, 9 Jun 2019 17:02:13 -0400, Steve Letter via Gimp-print-devel wrote:
>>> Ok, let me know.  
>>
>> OK, good to go:
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print/files/gutenprint-5.2/5.2.15/gutenprint-5.2.15.tar.bz2/download
>
> I have been only sort of following the list lately so I ask your
> indulgence with a few questions that are hopefully brief and easy.
>
> It looks like 5.2.15 is actually released and it's ok to update the
> pkgsrc package.  If not, just tell me and I'll wait.

Hold off for now, until I send out the official release notice.
You'll note that if you go to the download page you'll get 5.2.14 by
default (if not, I want to fix that!).

> As I read NEWS, and ignoring mac installer issues, 5.2.15 relative to
> .14 is a lot of fixes and two new printers, but nothing structurally
> different, so one would expect the packaging update process to be
> uninteresting.  Is that a correct read?

Correct.

> I have been seeing messages about splitting off some cups things, but I
> am assuming that this did not happen in 5.2.15 and is for 5.3 or later.
> Is that a correct impression?

5.3 only.  We're not planning to do any more 5.2 releases, and if we
have to, there will be no structural changes of any kind.

> I am building on a new machine (netbsd-8 amd64) where I put my build
> directory into a RAM/swap-backed /tmp.  I have that set to allow 12GB,
> which seems pretty large for building things.  I can even build rust
> with this!  gutenprint built fine, but 'make check' ran out of space.  I
> don't remember this, but before the build was in a filesystem with over
> 100GB avaalable.  Do you think I have a problem, or is make check really
> expected to take that much space?

The problem is the PPD conformance check; it builds and checks every
PPD file (all 196168 at last count).  That takes about 14 GB.  In 5.3
I've pared down the number of PPD files tested some, but it will still
take quite a bit of disk space (I don't think it's 10 GB, though).

BTW, speaking of 5.3, if you'd like to test the build-release script,
that would be helpful.
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