On Thu, 26 Oct 2017, Zdenek Dohnal wrote: > HP changed website this week, which has consequences for getting hp > proprietary plugin - it cannot be downloaded anymore for hplip-3.17.9, > which is in stable Fedoras (f25 and f26) and Fedora 27. ... > upstream several times about uploading plugin into openprinting.org > website, but without answer (probably because it was available on > hplipopensource.com). That's the situation for hplip-3.17.9. > Luckily, there is hplip-3.17.10 in updates-testing repository, which has > plugin on openprinting.org. So if someone now needs to install printer, > which needs proprietary plugin, please update hplip to 3.17.10 from Not so much luck, as a sufficiently good process mostly being followed ['The more a well designed process is followed and tweaked with improvements, the more lucky one becomes' ;) ] The post partially quoted above points up another benefit from the virtue of 'packaging everything' as discussed in the recent 'packaging ruby dependencies' thread. When an upstream 'goes wonky' for whatever reason (there was a similar example in the Node.js ecosystem where a maintainer took down a minor but critical dependency, and 'broke world'), one can 'fall back' to the last SRPMS (and other VCS backups as well), and recover Without packaged sources, and the discipline of sub-dependency determination and solution, and the 'four freedoms' checking goodness of a formal 'licenses review', and the additional set of eyes cross-checking work, one loses so much -- Russ herrold _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
