splix rejected

[Till Kamppeter]

So I will upload with the appropriate comment in README.debian for now
and later on I will introduce CUPS DDK into Ubuntu Linux. If this is
done I will make an update of SpliX which builds the PPD files with
CUPS DDK.

   Till

On 1/10/07, Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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
>