[plug] Thanks for the help.

[Craig Ringer]

>    This is a global thanks to Russ Pitman for his assistance in getting Cups 
>    printing working on Debian woody.
>    Sacha's Schlegel, Allan Hewitt comments where also appreciated.

Speaking of which... CUPS packages from Sid, rebuilt for Woody, are now 
available on www.postnewspapers.com.au/~craig . Sorry, I haven't created 
an apt-gettable repository, and you'll need to grab a debconf backport 
from one of the debian folk to get it going. You can get the debconf 
backport from:

deb http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/BACKPORTS stable main
deb-src http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/BACKPORTS stable main

These packages are _not_ well tested. I'm using them in production at 
work, but I have another machine to fall back on really easily, and I 
need some of the improvements in the new CUPS. They definitely print to 
some kind of HP inkjet, too. Beyond that, though - consider them 
untested. They also break foomatic, so you must apt-get remove 
foomatic-{bin,db}, and I can't get the /new/ foomatic from sid to work 
due to some kind of horrible dependency/conflict circle.

You can grab the packages from 
http://www.postnewspapers.com.au/~craig/cupsdebs/
if you're game to try them out.

Craig Ringer


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