Ship a custom printer test page

Bug #800317 reported by Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
elementary OS
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned
0.1-jupiter
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
0.2-luna
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Ship the custom printer test page from lp:elementaryos/0.1

Tags: bitesize
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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) wrote :

There are basically two ways to solve this:
1) run dpkg-divert for every file we overwrite (not maintainable)
2) migrate all resources into .deb packages

description: updated
Changed in elementaryos:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
assignee: nobody → Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)
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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) wrote :

Resource list (as of revision 201):
10-help-text 10_linux.patch access.pcx blank.pcx cd_in_tray.png gfxboot.cfg midori_config splash.pcx testpage.ps ubi-language.py ubuntu_installed.png

Should be migrated to .deb:
10-help-text 10_linux cd_in_tray.png midori_config testpage.ps ubuntu_installed.png

gfxboot.cfg should be converted to a patch or sed script.

It's not clear what does ubi-language.py do.

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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) wrote :

Midori defaults moved to elementary-misc-defaults package.

Changed in elementaryos:
status: Triaged → In Progress
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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) wrote :

The only thing that's left is the printer test page. I guess I'll just divert it, too lazy to make a package for it.

summary: - Custom resources are overwritten on software updates
+ Ship a custom printer test page
tags: removed: ebuild
description: updated
tags: added: bitesize
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Danielle Foré (danrabbit) wrote :

Is this really necessary? I'd be inclined to just not do this.

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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) wrote :

Well, we did ship a custom printer test page in Jupiter because Ubuntu's one was branded.
And it's still branded as of Precise, see /usr/share/cups/data/default-testpage.pdf on your system

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Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames) wrote :

I'm working on a PDF for it. Dan, if you have any mockups or ideas, lemme know. Otherwise I'll just do mine and we'll ship it. xD

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Cody Garver (codygarver) wrote :

Fix sort-of committed. The attached branch now exists with a placeholder file, waiting for something more original to materialize.

Changed in elementaryos:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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