Re: [Gimp-print-devel] First experiences with an 870

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> > Well, 3.1.4 is probably at least as stable as the plugin in gimp 1.0
> > (version 2.0.2), and it supports far more printers at much higher
> > quality.  It could be thought of as a midlife kicker.
> 
> If it's optional, it would probably be OK.  I suppose Debian has
> a stricter idea of stability than most...

You can say that again.  Too much so for my taste.  Stable -> Stale.

Luckily, no one forces me to run the current "stable" release.

> I've thrown together a
> gimp-1.1-print Debian package, which seems to work on the machines here.
> It depends on "yada", the packaging helper which I wrote and have been
> failing to properly maintain over the last year.  I hope this won't
> cause anyone any problems...

Sounds great!

> I think Eric's work is on a gimp-printified ghostscript package; mine
> is on a gimp plugin package.  So the two should be complementary.

Yes, althought the two should probably suggest each other.

Anyway, I've been meaning to mention the fact that the scripts for
building Debian packages for Debian 2.3 are in working order.

How should we upload these packages to the sourceforge server?

Ideally, I think it would be best if we could get these packages
automatically built on the SF compile farm, however, it appears not to
have Debian available, only Caldera, Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware, and
SuSE, AFAICT.  That's a crying shame.

Eric