Comment 176 for bug 25966

On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 21:29 +0000, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Saïvann and Jeremy, thank you very much for doing this awkward task of
> packaging these drivers. Debianizing the Brother drivers in a
> distribution-friendly way was much more complex than debianizing a
> typical free software application. So you have learned already a lot to
> get MOTU already with these packages. I liked very much sponsoring the
> upload of your packages and supporting your effort.
>
I wish I would have had the time to do more. Fortuanatly I've found
employment in an opensource friendly/contributing company. However our
own projects always come first and these are primarly tools to make the
lives of administrators easier, and in technical support for customers.
> The original drivers are really not well designed for being shipped with
> a distro, and this made me adding several points to my driver design
> guidelines at OpenPrinting:
>
> https://www.linux-
> foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/WritingAndPackagingPrinterDrivers
>
> Saïvann, Jeremy, would you also like to make distribution-independent,
> LSB-based packages of the Brother drivers? These would be uploaded onto
> the OpenPrinting server and then arbitrary (LSB-compliant) distros can
> automatically download them when a Brother printer gets discovered.
>
If time permits I'd love to. I have done some RPM packaging in the past,
but my LSB knowledge is not up to date. I won't consider myself an
active developer on any of these. but if time warrants I'll be happy to
participate.

Jeremy