CUPS (unsolved) PRs

[Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu]

Hi,


I'm mailing you as maintainers of various cups* related ports, as I
would like to see the problems described in this PRs fixed and the
recent upgrade generated far more problems for the users that we all
would have liked.

Currently there are the following PRs against CUPS:
( http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?category=ports&text=cups )
f	2006/06/25	ports/99460	itetcu	print/cups: CUPS 1.2.0_x: Unable to open USB device "usb:/dev/ulpt0": Permission denied
f	2006/06/29	ports/99602	itetcu	CUPS relaying fails
f	2006/06/30	ports/99624	itetcu	[PATCH] print/cups: update to 1.2.1
f	2006/07/02	ports/99707	itetcu	CUPS in ports can't print raw data using application/octet-stream
f	2006/07/03	ports/99745	itetcu	print/cups: CUPS 1.2.0_x: Unable to open parallel port device file "/dev/lpt0": Permission denied
f	2006/07/04	ports/99786	itetcu	cups-base OPTIONS don't work and 1.2.1 has been released
f	2006/07/04	ports/99791	itetcu	cups-base clobbers LPRng
f	2006/07/05	ports/99798	itetcu	print/cups-base makes symbolic links without entity
Plus 2 others against cups-pstoraster (ports/98199, ports/98843) which
is unmaintained.

- you'll notice that one of the PRs above is an update for cups-base to
1.2.1
- since the rest of the ports that you maintain depend on cups-base,
it would be nice I think, to have the dependent ports tested at run
time with the new version before the update to cups-base is commited
(provided that the maintainer approves the update, of course); while
I'm a cups user, I'm not a "heavy " one, so I can't do all this testing.
- I would also like to do one or two commits for the above PRs since
there's no reason to force users to update cups ports each next day :-)
(what I'm saying is that it's better to wait a few days until we can
sort all problems out rather that commit incomplete fixes)
- I also know there are some open cups-related kde bugs; I don't know
if/how they are related to above PRs.


In conclusion, before commiting an other update to cups-base, I'd like
to know it has been tested with the other ports and have the respective
patches for them if necessary.


Thanks,

-- 
IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"
  "Intellectual Property" is   nowhere near as valuable   as "Intellect"

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We are Microsoft.  What you are experiencing is not a problem; it
is an undocumented feature.


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