Desktop Team 20090609 meeting minutes
Rick Spencer
rick.spencer at canonical.com
Wed Jun 10 01:42:18 BST 2009
Here are the minutes from the desktop team meeting. You can also find
them and the irc log here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2009-06-09
== Present ==
* Rick Spencer (rickspencer3) - chair
* Alexander Sack (asac)
* Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)
* Bryce Harrington (bryce)
* Chris Cheney (calc)
* Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)
* Ken VanDine (kenvandine)
* Martin Pitt (pitti)
* Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
* Tony Espy (awe)
* Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)
== Apologies ==
* Robert Ancell (robert_ancell) - out of timezone
* Luke Yelavich (TheMuso) - out of timezone
== Agenda ==
* Reviews
* GIMP
* Blueprints, specs, burndowns
* Bug hygiene
* Team Meeting: Eastern Edition
* Release Bugs/Release Status
* Review activity reports
* Any other business
== Actions from this meeting ==
* All: schedule a time for performance review
* rickspencer3: create burndown chart script for blueprints
* All: add work items to burndown chart as defined by burndown chart
script
* All: unasign bugs that will not be addressed in Karmic, including
release targeted ones
== Reviews ==
* Desktop team employees should schedule a time with rickspencer for
performance reviews
== The GIMP ==
* rickspencer3 proposes pulling the gimp from the CD:
* It takes up a lot of space that we need for couchdb, etc...
* F-Spot has key features, like crop and red-eye removal
* It's a power user tool, users shouldn't stumble into it
* Discussion points brought up that
* The gimp currently uses 26 megs of space, 20 of which are
documentation, which could be moved online
* The gimp, though not totally user friendly, is very useful, and does
not require "importing" to edit
* The current plan of record is:
* Keep the gimp in the default install
* If we need the room, switch the gimp to online only documentation
* If we still need the room, kick it out altogether
== Blueprints, etc... ==
* About 50% of the blueprints are approved
* Decision was taken to track work items on the blueprint white boards
* Burn down chart will be generated form whiteboards asap
* In order to accommodate different work flow, the system may later be
extended to allow tracking with bugs as well
== Bug Hygiene ==
* rickspencer3 asked that team members only have bugs assigned that
they intend to fix in Karmic
* Rich discussion followed regarding bug usage
* Little was concluded, except that a problem definition was needed
before progress could be made in the discussion
== Team Meeting: Eastern Edition ==
* An addition team meeting will be added to accommodate team members in
Easter time zones.
* The meeting will be at 23:00 UTC on Tuesdays. All are invited to
attend.
== Release Bugs/Release Status ==
We have many release targeted bugs across multiple previous releases.
Apparently, much of this is cruft that should be removed.
=== Karmic ===
|| '''Id''' || '''Title''' || '''Assigned To''' || '''Status''' ||
'''Importance''' || '''Package''' || '''Release''' || '''Milestone''' ||
'''Team''' || '''Date Confirmed''' ||
|| 376396 || pulls in phonon-backend-null || jr || In Progress || High
|| kdebase (Ubuntu Karmic) || karmic || karmic-alpha-2 || || 2009-05-14
08:54:25.159816+00:00 ||
|| 383444 || 2009i available - Timezone change for Bangladesh || pitti
|| Fix Committed || High || tzdata (Ubuntu Karmic) || karmic || || ||
2009-06-05 08:58:35.200716+00:00 ||
|| 383230 || apport-collect should call programs with LC_MESSAGES=C ||
pitti || In Progress || Medium || apport (Ubuntu Karmic) || karmic ||
|| || 2009-06-03 15:52:29.687294+00:00 ||
=== Jaunty ===
|| '''Id''' || '''Title''' || '''Assigned To''' || '''Status''' ||
'''Importance''' || '''Package''' || '''Release''' || '''Milestone''' ||
'''Team''' || '''Date Confirmed''' ||
|| 314928 || [i915GM] MTRR entry gets removed when restarting xorg -
causes corruption on ttys || bryceharrington || In Progress || Critical
|| xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu Jaunty) || jaunty || jaunty-updates
|| || 2009-05-11 18:02:28.838832+00:00 ||
|| 361115 || nm-connection-editor crashs after clicking Cancel in the
add new connection dialog || asac || Fix Committed || High ||
network-manager-applet (Ubuntu Jaunty) || jaunty || later || ||
2009-04-15 14:17:16.476277+00:00 ||
|| 360905 || Network-Manager not seeing broadband card || asac || In
Progress || High || network-manager (Ubuntu Jaunty) || jaunty || || ||
2009-05-06 12:55:39.876909+00:00 ||
|| 274605 || Firefox release notes show Ubuntu release notes || asac ||
In Progress || High || ubufox (Ubuntu Jaunty) || jaunty ||
jaunty-updates || || 2009-05-02 15:25:42.045563+00:00 ||
|| 305394 || No subpixel smoothing || asac || Confirmed || Medium ||
fontconfig (Ubuntu Jaunty) || jaunty || ubuntu-9.04-beta || ||
2009-01-03 02:27:06.321395+00:00 ||
|| 368553 || [jaunty] [TYPO in script - missing quote] line 81:
unexpected EOF while looking for matching
`' /usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux/hal-system-killswitch-get-power-linux:
line 84: syntax error: unexpected end of file. || pitti || In Progress
|| Medium || hal (Ubuntu Jaunty) || jaunty || || || 2009-06-04
15:30:18.167348+00:00 ||
|| 174212 || gvfs fuse does not wait on uploads - Cannot save file to
FTP server (from Save dialog) || ccheney || Triaged || Medium || gvfs
(Ubuntu Jaunty) || jaunty || jaunty-updates || || 2009-03-29
04:53:42.032854+00:00 ||
|| 220628 || [MASTER] firefox-3.0b5 received an X Window System error:
'BadIDChoice' || asac || Triaged || Medium || libxcb (Ubuntu Jaunty) ||
jaunty || jaunty-updates || || 2009-03-22 14:25:18.215847+00:00 ||
|| 371543 || Openoffice uses old version of libicu || ccheney ||
Confirmed || Undecided || openoffice.org (Ubuntu Jaunty) || jaunty ||
jaunty-updates || || 2009-05-06 19:02:08.366259+00:00 ||
|| 351122 || gthumb doesn't work with gphoto (was please disable gphoto2
backend for Jaunty) || pitti || New || Undecided || gthumb (Ubuntu
Jaunty) || jaunty || || || None ||
|| 359392 || [i965] X freezes starting on April 3rd || pitti || Fix
Committed || Undecided || compiz (Ubuntu Jaunty) || jaunty || || ||
2009-04-30 06:16:18.467342+00:00 ||
=== Intrepid ===
|| '''Id''' || '''Title''' || '''Assigned To''' || '''Status''' ||
'''Importance''' || '''Package''' || '''Release''' || '''Milestone''' ||
'''Team''' || '''Date Confirmed''' ||
|| 290625 || New CDMA entries added as GSM || asac || Triaged || High ||
libmbca (Ubuntu Intrepid) || intrepid || intrepid-updates || ||
2008-10-29 08:55:37.139709+00:00 ||
|| 301593 || network-manager-pptp lacks refuse-eap option in
advanced ... dialog || asac || Triaged || High || network-manager-pptp
(Ubuntu Intrepid) || intrepid || intrepid-updates || || 2008-11-24
10:34:07.634993+00:00 ||
|| 284212 || VPN connection fails: unable to find valid VPN secrets
(auth dialog crash when secrets exist) || asac || Triaged || High ||
network-manager-openvpn (Ubuntu Intrepid) || intrepid ||
intrepid-updates || || 2008-11-28 12:23:32.114348+00:00 ||
|| 303165 || NM does not honour manual IP4Settings for ppp connections
[(3G/pppoe) NM doesn't overwrite the bogus values it received from ppp
even if you set Automatic (addresses only) in the ip4setting tab in
connection editor] || asac || Triaged || High || network-manager (Ubuntu
Intrepid) || intrepid || intrepid-updates || || 2008-11-28
14:01:03.052101+00:00 ||
|| 262191 || MASTER [regression] VPNC plugin - no option to only save
group password available || asac || Triaged || Medium ||
network-manager-vpnc (Ubuntu Intrepid) || intrepid || intrepid-updates
|| || 2008-10-30 21:34:37.986161+00:00 ||
|| 258743 || NM 0.7 Fails To Set Custom MTU || asac || Triaged || Medium
|| network-manager (Ubuntu Intrepid) || intrepid || intrepid-updates ||
|| 2008-11-03 03:11:24.701941+00:00 ||
|| 258743 || NM 0.7 Fails To Set Custom MTU || asac || Triaged || Medium
|| network-manager-openvpn (Ubuntu Intrepid) || intrepid || || ||
2008-11-03 10:45:14.563210+00:00 ||
|| 258743 || NM 0.7 Fails To Set Custom MTU || asac || Triaged || Medium
|| network-manager-pptp (Ubuntu Intrepid) || intrepid || || ||
2008-11-03 10:46:21.011222+00:00 ||
|| 145716 || panel launchers break on upgrade || asac || Triaged ||
Medium || thunderbird (Ubuntu Intrepid) || intrepid || intrepid-updates
|| || 2008-12-31 18:42:05.911644+00:00 ||
|| 291062 || MASTER - Network Manager sometimes has enable networking
unchecked/disabled when resuming from suspend || asac || Triaged ||
Medium || pm-utils (Ubuntu Intrepid) || intrepid || || || 2009-03-18
20:32:08.087424+00:00 ||
|| 327053 || Intrepid -> Jaunty upgrade kills NetworkManager || asac ||
In Progress || Medium || network-manager (Ubuntu Intrepid) || intrepid
|| || || 2009-04-22 12:35:32.808215+00:00 ||
|| 310126 || [failsafeXinit] launches gnome-terminal or gedit as root
without a password || bryceharrington || Triaged || Medium || xorg
(Ubuntu Intrepid) || intrepid || || || 2009-03-12 18:50:44.042401
+00:00 ||
=== Hardy ===
|| '''Id''' || '''Title''' || '''Assigned To''' || '''Status''' ||
'''Importance''' || '''Package''' || '''Release''' || '''Milestone''' ||
'''Team''' || '''Date Confirmed''' ||
|| 218534 || [Needs Packaging] JavaScript vulnerability in
Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey/Xulrunner before 2.0.0.14/1.1.10/1.8.1.14
|| asac || Triaged || Critical || xulrunner (Ubuntu Hardy) || hardy ||
|| || 2008-05-02 15:12:17.776676+00:00 ||
|| 197680 || rotation doesn't work with this board using Screen
Resolution || bryceharrington || Confirmed || Critical ||
xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu Hardy) || hardy || || || 2008-08-29
20:46:58.294761+00:00 ||
|| 201114 || -help packages need alternate language-support-
dependencies || ccheney || Triaged || High || openoffice.org-l10n
(Ubuntu Hardy) || hardy || ubuntu-8.04.3 || || 2008-03-11
19:57:53.097787+00:00 ||
|| 361602 || network manager 0.6 should use 9 or 8 seconds as a scan
timeout to workaround driver bugs || asac || Fix Committed || High ||
network-manager (Ubuntu Hardy) || hardy || ubuntu-8.04.3 || ||
2009-04-15 10:11:39.079550+00:00 ||
|| 269188 || Extreme slowness, Firefox is already running error for >3
users launching Firefox in LTSP environment || asac || In Progress ||
High || nspr (Ubuntu Hardy) || hardy || ubuntu-8.04.3 || || 2009-01-12
23:33:17.198521+00:00 ||
|| 227711 || hunspell-en-us conflicts with thunderbird (unversioned) ||
asac || Triaged || High || hunspell-en-us (Ubuntu Hardy) || hardy || ||
|| 2008-05-07 12:09:17.203404+00:00 ||
|| 212726 || [Master] Eight (8) instances of back/forward buttons ||
asac || Confirmed || High || firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu Hardy) || hardy || ||
|| 2008-05-28 15:20:37.488077+00:00 ||
|| 151311 || DDC report some ridiculous physical screen size - causes
wacky font sizes on login screen || bryceharrington || In Progress ||
High || xorg-server (Ubuntu Hardy) || hardy || || || 2008-07-30
00:19:35.889546+00:00 ||
|| 209483 || 2.6.24 reports invalid storage size in /sys [Sony Walkman
NWZ-S618F doesn't mount in Hardy] || pitti || Fix Committed || Medium ||
hal (Ubuntu Hardy) || hardy || || || 2008-07-22 06:24:19.579719+00:00
||
|| 218393 || [kde4] /sbin not included in ubuntu user's PATH
environmental variable || jr || Confirmed || Medium || kdebase-workspace
(Ubuntu Hardy) || hardy || || || 2008-06-06 23:29:32.888390+00:00 ||
|| 150187 || Evince has very bad quality when printing pdf files. ||
seb128 || Triaged || Medium || poppler (Ubuntu Hardy) || hardy ||
ubuntu-8.04.3 || || 2008-06-05 20:00:28.748884+00:00 ||
|| 23369 || firefox(-gnome-support) should get proxy from gconf || asac
|| Triaged || Medium || xulrunner-1.9 (Ubuntu Hardy) || hardy || || ||
2008-05-22 12:53:43.703755+00:00 ||
|| 145716 || panel launchers break on upgrade || asac || Triaged ||
Medium || thunderbird (Ubuntu Hardy) || hardy || || || 2008-12-31
18:40:54.276387+00:00 ||
|| 39249 || (Dapper, Hardy) can't
create /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.eth0.leases: Permission denied || pitti
|| Triaged || Undecided || dhcp3 (Ubuntu Hardy) || hardy || || ||
2008-08-05 16:22:19.806452+00:00 ||
|| 364669 || Reading supplementary groups is too slow || pitti ||
Triaged || Undecided || postgresql-common (Ubuntu Hardy) || hardy || ||
|| 2009-04-22 14:36:13.256625+00:00 ||
|| 227711 || hunspell-en-us conflicts with thunderbird (unversioned) ||
arnegoetje || Confirmed || Undecided || uzbek-wordlist (Ubuntu Hardy) ||
hardy || || || 2008-11-29 17:29:26.714209+00:00 ||
=== dapper ===
|| '''Id''' || '''Title''' || '''Assigned To''' || '''Status''' ||
'''Importance''' || '''Package''' || '''Release''' || '''Milestone''' ||
'''Team''' || '''Date Confirmed''' ||
|| 243064 || page releasenotes 604 not found || asac || Triaged || Low
|| firefox (Ubuntu Dapper) || dapper || || || 2008-07-11
14:16:36.882225+00:00 ||
== Activity reports ==
=== Alexander Sack (asac) ===
Spec state:
* UbuntuSpec:desktop-karmic-browsers - drafted. requested approval
* UbuntuSpec:desktop-karmic-firefox-3.5 - drafted. requested approval
* UbuntuSpec:desktop-karmic-bluetooth-stack - drafted. requested
approval
* UbuntuSpec:mozilla-karmic-firefox-wifi-scanning - 95% drafted,
discussed with upstream. next: finish document and request approval.
* UbuntuSpec:desktop-karmic-network-ui - drafting, waiting for awe to
come back from vac.
* UbuntuSpec:desktop-karmic-network-status - pre-discussion done during
UDS, need to spec this together with holtmann (connman) and dcbw (NM);
project is a two cycle project i guess
* UbuntuSpec:desktop-karmic-modemmanagers - drafting.
* UbuntuSpec:desktop-karmic-con-man - informational, will put the
content in asap
Mozilla work:
* security update preparations and call for testing for
firefox/xulrunnr and thunderbird
* LP: #319480 - firefox crashed with SIGSEGV in memalign(); long
standing issue, causing segfault on every shutdown on 1.9.1+ branches. I
finally fixed this by leaking the environment vars set.
Sponsoring/Mentoring
* adblock-plus
* greasemonkey
* gnome-bluetooth
Misc
* submitted patch to libnotify upstream to adds convenience function
for probing
for capabilities (see LP: #383875)
* work with crevette on gnome-bluetooth
=== Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje) ===
Specs:
* UbuntuSpec:desktop-karmic-language-selector-karmic - drafting, need
mpt and cjwatson to review and fill in the blanks
* UbuntuSpec:desktop-karmic-translations - informational, will split
out items and file them as bugs or blueprints, although nothing for the
desktop team to work on.
* UbuntuSpec:desktop-karmic-input-methods - informational, needs more
discussion, nothing to implement during Karmic cycle.
* UbuntuSpec:desktop-karmic-fonts - informational, will split out some
to do items, but these items may not be finished for Karmic.
Misc
* Investigated buggy firefox translations in the langpack PPA for
Jaunty: this is because of message sharing being implemented in Rosetta.
Trying to fix this with new XPI uploads into Rosetta, so far with no
success. Launchpad Translations team is informed, we won't ship Jaunty
langpack updates until message sharing is fully in place.
=== Bryce Harrington (bryce) ===
=== Distro ===
* AllHands May 18-22
- Presentation on X.org
* UDS May 25-29
- Several sessions on X topics and bug handling
* Sponsored: libx11(#379785)
=== X.org ===
* Extensive -intel bug triage work with Jesse Barnes at UDS
* Wrote script to parse Xorg.0.log files into python data object
* Lots of planning work for X.org in coming months
* Packaged new libdrm 2.6.11 release from upstream
* Packaged git snapshot of -intel 2.6.99.1+git
* Merged -ati from Debian
* Closed bunch of bugs fixed by new -intel and -ati
* Completed/closed several blueprints now done as of UDS
* Packaged, proposed intel-gpu-tools for Karmic
* Worked on Jaunty X freeze issues a bunch. Set up a wiki page to
track all the various proposed fixes. Set up several PPAs:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/IntelDriver#Fixes
* Drafted and distributed Karmic X.org driver req's/plan
(for desktop-karmic-xorg blueprint, now nearly done)
* Kernel Mode-setting
- Intel: -intel seems to be working okay; merged in 2.6.99.1+git to
Karmic, worked on / upstreamed relevant bug reports
- ATI: tested -ati with apw's kernel - the kernel side more
or less works, but additional support is needed in X. Work
continues in xorg-edgers
- Nvidia: Tested -nouveau on G70 and G86 core cards; neither worked
but for different reasons. ordered a G92 card which supposedly
has received better testing. At this point I'm really having my
doubts that -nouveau is far enough along to replace -nv, let alone
do kernel mode setting...
* Updated pci id's for -nv
=== Chris Cheney (calc) ===
* Uploaded openoffice.org 1:3.1.0-3ubuntu1
* Uploaded openoffice.org 1:3.1.0-3ubuntu2 to h/i/j/k
* Uploaded openoffice.org-l10n 1:3.1.0-1ubuntu2 to h/i/j/k
* Uploaded openoffice.org-l10n 1:3.1.0-3ubuntu2 to h/i/j/k
* Found someone to do KDE 4 integration for OOo.
* Found someone to do KDE 4 icon style for OOo.
* All Hands
* UDS Karmic
* Weekly OOo Release Status Meetings
* Weekly desktop team meeting
* Lots of OOo bug triage
* Note - also working on OEM Team
=== Jonathan Riddell (Riddell) ===
done:
* a day recovering from the UDS plague
* full day new queue processing (quite some backlog there)
* overseeing and releasing KDE 4.2.4 packages
* packaging and announcing Amarok 2.1
* overseeing KDE 4.3 beta 2 packages
* processing e-mail backlog
todo:
* alpha 2 testing
* off thursday and friday
=== Ken VanDine (kenvandine) ===
==== Done: ====
* MIRS for:
* empathy
* telepathy-gabble
* telepathy-salut
* telepathy-haze
* telepathy-idle
* telepathy-glib
* telepathy-mission-control
* libtelepathy
* Updated messaging indicator patch for empathy 2.27.2 and trunk,
submitted upstream
* Reviewed notification related patches sent upstream for acceptance
* Fixed a loudmouth bug that breaks jabber in empathy for many people
==== Todo: ====
* Finish up the follow-up work on the MIRs
* U1 Acceptance testing report
* Update gtk csdeco ppa build for Cody
* Social from the start follow-ups
* Alpha 2 iso testing
=== Luke Yelavich (TheMuso) ===
==== Accessibility ====
* Drafted gnome-speech replacement specification. See
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-karmic-gnome-speech-replacement
* Started work on a main inclusion report to promote liblouis
(http://code.google.com/p/liblouis/) to main, to provide grade 2
translation support for the Orca screen reader.
* Further speech-dispatcher pulseaudio output debugging. Will need to
work with Lennart on this one.
==== Audio ====
* Audio bug triaging, bugs in question are against pulseaudio, alsa
userspace, and the kernel for hardware enablement.
* Finished updating the alsa stack to 1.0.20. Forgot that plugins also
needed doing, so took care of that, as well as alsa-tools.
* Obtained some audio hardware that has limited to no support at least
in Ubuntu, to try and get it to the point where it just works.
* Started to put a package together of the latest git snapshot of
gnome-media, for local testing. I want to see how well the pulse volume
control allows for changing audio devices and switching audio streams
between audio devices.
==== dmraid ====
* Triaged some bugs for dmraid, since I have not yet heard of who is
taking over maintainership. Still need to prepare some patches to push
to debian.
==== Misc ====
* Took care of more merges/syncs that popped up on merges.ubuntu.com.
=== Martin Pitt (pitti) ===
Karmic spec drafting:
* desktop-karmic-automagic-python-build-system: drafted, waiting for
review from Rick
* desktop-karmic-symptom-based-bug-reporting: drafted, approved
Karmic feature work:
* desktop-karmic-automagic-python-build-system:
* status: branch available which implements about half of the
functionality
* no progress this week
* desktop-karmic-symptom-based-bug-reporting:
* first functional version of interactive hooks available in a branch
and my PPA
* blogged about it to get some testing
* hal deprecation:
* created https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Halsectomy for tracking progress
* switched Karmic to udev-extras for keymaps and ACLs
* created libgphoto2 patch for producing working udev rules, got it
accepted upstream
* discussion about hal-cups-utils -> udev migration
Other work done:
* Got the desktop CDs back into size limit for Alpha-2 by dropping
ekiga (karmic goal anyway) and all langpacks
* Cleaned up old apport crash reports which were not accessible for
anyone
* Debugged USB problem on Till's computer
* Some hal/hal-info maintenance
* Some bug fixes (cups, jockey, udev-extras)
* Set up automatic armel apport retracer
* DX integration conf call
* Tested new gdm; some upgrade and install problems, currently too
broken for alpha-2
* Updated to new gnome-power-manager
Currently open stable/milestoned bugs:
* Bug:334446 (Remove gnome-pilot from the default ubuntu install):
simple to do, needs some discussion though
Merges:
* mine are all done
* Checked some merges from other people which could be synced (and
synced them): gawk-doc, ed, apmd, dictd, gnome-common, libsndfile,
librsvg, libfile-basedir-perl, hyphen, wvstreams, unzip, portmap
Sponsoring:
* app-install-data-ubuntu, brasero, cdbs, fakeroot, fftw3,
gnome-doc-utils, gnome-pilot, hal, pbuilder, pessulus, pyopenssl,
tracker, transmission, exiv2
* Reviewed, not uploaded: cloop, dput, pyvorbis
=== Robert Ancell (robert_ancell) ===
* First draft of Compiz problem page for users:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VisualEffects
* Package updates: anjuta 2.27.2, glade 3.6.4, python-opengl 3.0.0, gdl
2.27.2 (blocked by needing to rebuild dependencies)
* Investigated delays in GtkBuilder, worked on some patches to speed up
(up to 40% faster)
* Triaging (especially empathy so ready for Karmic)
=== Sebastien Bacher (seb128) ===
karmic specs drafting:
* desktop-karmic-gnome-3: drafted, approved
* desktop-karmic-default-media-player-choice: drafted, waiting for an
another review round after update
* desktop-karmic-messaging-and-communication-selection: drafted,
waiting for an another review round after update
* desktop-karmic-default-application-priorities: drafted, approved
other tasks:
* catching up on emails after uds, etc
* GNOME updates: gtksourceview pygobject pygtk glib rhythmbox
deskbar-applet evince libgnomekbd gtkhtml gtk gnome-applets alacarte
* updated the notify-osd version in karmic
* worked on some karmic desktop packages bugs
* desktop bugs triage
* updated gdm to the current 2.26 tarball and uploaded to the
ubuntu-desktop karmic ppa for testing, still some issues to solve before
uploaded to karmic
sponsoring: totem poppler gnome-python pidgin notify-osd deskbar-applet
=== Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter) ===
* Updated Poppler to fix two printing-related bugs: LP: #335397
(Copying ASCII85-encoded binary data from the PDF input file produced
broken PostScript), LP: #382379 (Added PostScript output mode using the
original paper sizes instead of a user-supplied or default paper size).
* Discussed returning to Poppler for the pdftops CUPS filter as
Ghostscript's PostScript output devices ("pswrite" and "ps2write") both
lead to lots of problems. Posted on ubuntu-devel, created a master bug
(LP: #382379). Posted test pdftops filter on all related bugs to survey
the users. No regressions so far.
* Added pdftoopvp CUPS filter to the CUPS package on Karmic, as part of
the newest PDF filters add-on.
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