Extension of PPU rights for printing and scanning: cpdb-libs, cpdb-backend-cups, cpdb-backend-file

[Sebastien Bacher]

Hey there,

The request makes sense to me. Those packages are maintained upstream by 
OpenPrinting and Till is actively contributing to the vcs. He also 
worked on updating those packages in Ubuntu in Lunar and is working with 
the Debian Printing team as a co-maintainer to get them updated also there.

I'm going to let a few days for other DMB members to comment and will 
then add them to Till's packageset if there is no objection.

Cheers,
Sébastien Bacher

Le 26/05/2023 à 13:04, Till Kamppeter a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> for those who only recently joined the DMB. I am leading the 
> OpenPrinting project [1] [2] and for Ubuntu I have PPU rights for all 
> printing- and scanning-related packages in Main and I am also MOTU.
>
> With the introduction of the New Architecture for printing and 
> scanning [3] into Ubuntu some re-structuring is happening in the 
> printing stack in Ubuntu, which creates some new packages in Main.
>
> After libppd (thanks for the approval) I need now PPU rights for the 
> packages
>
> - cpdb-libs
> - cpdb-backend-cups
> - cpdb-backend-file
>
> Their MIRs got approved and the packages promoted an hour ago.
>
> The packages implement the Common Print Dialog Backends [4] concept, 
> where print dialogs of GUI applications do not talk directly to CUPS 
> any more but communicate with print technologies like CUPS, 
> cloud-printing services, or print-to-file by D-Bus with 
> GUI-independent backends and the backends are developed and maintained 
> by the same people who develop and maintain the print technology 
> itself, OpenPrinting for the CUPS backend for example. This makes the 
> print dialogs immediately working with changes, like now the New 
> Architecture of CUPS and also allows providers of cloud printing 
> services to make printing to their service available in all apps, as 
> easy as printing to a local printers.
>
> This way the print dialogs can easily cope with the New Architecture 
> of printing.
>
> Therefore I would like to ask you whether you could grant me PPU 
> rights for these three source packages.
>
> If any additional information is needed, please tell me.
>
>    Till
>
>
> [1] https://openprinting.github.io/about-us/
> [2] https://openprinting.github.io/news/
> [3] 
> https://openprinting.github.io/current/#the-new-architecture-for-printing-and-scanning
> [4] 
> https://openprinting.github.io/achievements/#common-print-dialog-backends
>