[7756] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Pushing out printing-config now?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu May 3 18:17:48 2012
Message-Id: <201205032217.q43MHkbU005690@outgoing.mit.edu>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: <8780DAC4-B52E-4F45-A593-2831F91D96AE@mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 18:17:45 -0400
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
What's the risk? If this were to completely explode, would people be
unable to print? unable to print via lpr but cups would work? What's
the backout strategy in case of disaster?
--
Jonathon
Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> Despite it being well past drop-date, I would really like to push printing-config (from -dev) out now, so that we catch anybody who is still trying to use LPRng. That way we can remove it from the release when we upgrade to Precise. Thoughts?
>
> The alternative would be to deploy the new printing config this summer, and then pull debathena-lprng from the release over IAP.
>
> -Jon
