Re: print/foomatic-filters

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 11:49:12AM +0200, Benny Siegert wrote:
> It looks like I have created a mess with my commit yesterday. I upgraded print/foomatic-filters to 4.0.17, missing that this version was already available as print/foomatic-filters4. I could just revert that commit, but I do have a few questions:

You should for now - as long as you don't, pbulk will fail to start.

> Why do we even have both versions?

No idea.
 Thomas


> Why is print/foomatic-ppds from 2007? I highly doubt that any of the printers in there are even still made. Is there any downside to just updating this?
> 
> Why does print/foomatic-ppds explicitly depend on a foomatic-filters below version 4?
> 
> I would be glad if someone could provide some insight.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> — 
> Benny