package kdeprint
retitle 230209 foomatic: foomatic-ppdfile broke BC by losing -t parameter
reassign 230209 foomatic-db-engine
thanks
Hi,
I'm reassigning this bug to the package containing foomatic-ppdfile
because it's a pretty important bug to break BC imho.
cheers
domi
Eric Lavarde writes:
> Hi, as you can see below, I discussed with the kdeprint developer,
> and it looks like the problem is that foomatic lost the "-t"
> parameter. I have now a workaround (re-add the -t option to
> foomatic), so I don't see the bug as so important, but I don't know
> how you want to handle it.
> Cheers, Eric
> ---------------------------- Original Message
> ----------------------------
> Subject: RE: Question on bug creation for kdeprint From: "Goffioul
> Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, February 3, 2004 10:33 am To:
> "Eric Lavarde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > getopts("d:p:ht:f");
>> Nope, it's: getopts("AP:d:p:hw") || help();
>>
>> Looks like, we have different versions of the script (mine is
>> 3.0.0-20040114), or the Debian maintainer has been doing some
>> cleaning. OK, I just added the -t option to the getopts line, and
>> it seems to work just fine.
> Looking at several foomatic packages, the same flags as you have are
> also used for 3.1. So it seems like backward compatibility has been
> broken in foomatic somewhere between 3.0 and 3.1. I'll contact
> foomatic developer about this.
> Michael.
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