splix rejected

[Tollef Fog Heen]

Till Kamppeter skrev:
> The PPDs are generated from the .drv file in the ppd/ directory. The 
> file is processed with the ppdc utility of the CUPS DDK. The author 
> includes the generated files for convenience, so that the user does not 
> need to install CUPS DDK to build the package.

Ok.

> - Stay with the pre-built PPDs but tell in debian/README.debian, that
>   these are generated from the .derv file and the user can re-generate
>   them with CUPS DDK

For now, this is fine, so please reupload with that note.

> - Introduce CUPS DDK into Ubuntu and do all the process to get it into
>   main. As soon as it appears in main return to the Splix introduction
>   and
> 
>    o Let SpliX take CUPS DDK as build dependency and force the build
>      process to rebuild the PPDs. Let the patch to fix the PPD bugs only
>      apply to the .drv file then

This is a better long-term plan, so please do this.

>    o In addition, repackage the source tarball to not include the PPDs,
>      as they can be considered non-free.

No, they're not non-free, they're just missing the build script for the 
PPDs, which is a relativetly minor thing.

>    o Ask the author to release a "distribution edition" of the tarball
>      containing only human-generated files and as soon as he has
>      uploaded this version build the package based on this version.

This is absolutely not needed.

- tfheen