Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Gutenprint 5.3.5-pre1 Release

[Solomon P. <pi...@sh...>]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 07:49:34PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> This really seems buggy of sourceforge, and seems to be hostile to
> packaging.  I am guessing this is just how it is, and there's not much
> to be done, other than skipping github and moving to codeberg :-)

I'd probably jump straight to sourcehut instead, because I prefer email.

...just have to get this release out the door before I can figure out 
what to do next.  I'd rather self-host than stay on sourceforge.

> I am curious if other packagers also find this troublesome.  They might
> well not; this is just a collision between pkgsrc assuming
> near-universal practice and sourceforge being odd.

I honestly don't know.
 
> >   0) Support for running on MacOS has been deprecated. Unless someone
> >      steps up to maintain the MacOS port, there will be no MacOS
> >      builds for this (or any future) Gutenprint release.
> 
> I'm hoping that a posix-type build on macos is ok, but if not we can
> mark the pkgsrc package BROKEN.

Given that we have to integrate with the MacOS printing subsystem and 
directly speak to attached USB devices, I don't believe a posix-type 
build has been sufficient for something like a decade..

 - Solomon
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