On 10.01.2008 02:51, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora <at> leemhuis.info> writes: >> Another example: hplip is still on 2.7.7 for F8 right now while upstream >> is at 2.7.12 in between and supports 22 new printers ( >> http://hplip.sourceforge.net/release_notes.html ). We don't provide any >> solutions for users that buy those printers right now besides using >> rawhide. Thus they have to wait/ask for a proper update or wait until F9 >> or -- the latter means waiting about 6 months for driver. That's IMHO >> unacceptable -- especially as printer manufacturers release successor >> models quite often (it feels to me like a new successor model get >> released in each printer class about once a year, but I didn't check). > With HP printers, usually the successor model works just fine if you pass it > off as its predecessor. We might know that. But most random users might not. An it's just "usually" and not "always". CU knurd -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
