[packman] PDF virtual printer

[Malcolm]

On Sat 14 Jan 2017 06:21:07 PM CST, Luigi Baldoni wrote:

>Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2017 at 5:01 PM
>From: Malcolm <malcolmlewis at cableone.net>
>> Then you need to ask the maintainer of cups-pdf  
>
>That would be me.
>
>> to push into the next release (it exists in Tumbleweed)  
>
>Already done that.
>
>> If it exists on OBS, then due to packman build power (well lack there
>> of) unless there is a specific package required that only exists on
>> packman to add further features (eg un-cripple)  
>
>Since the package is very small (26k tarball) and very useful, I
>thought it could have a place on packman. Cf. all the not quite vital
>stuff hosted in Extra.
>
>> then communicate with the OBS maintainers to get it pushed where
>> you would like it.  
>
>Unless the world caught fire, there is no way for a new package to
>get into 42.2:Update at this point.
>
>> So if it links to factory/Tumbleweed on OBS, then it will break on
>> packman as well... a bit ironic ;)  
>
>Can't follow you here.
>
>The idea is that Factory packages are stable as opposed as the ones in
>devel repos.
>
>Regards
Hi
So push it to 42.3 and folk can grab it from the Printing repo, as
maintainer, you can always build with what your happy with and then
just disable the build for 42.2 so you can decide if and when a package
can go through...

Even small packages mount up, many have been push back to OBS because
of minimal build power on packman... now with all the arm stuff coming
online, more load...

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