
By this variable not been set an infinite loop of immediately stopping update loop happened, blocking cups-browsed completely and taking high CPU load.This is fixed upstream in cups-browsed, commit cb115406 Failed creation of a CUPS queue in a sub-thread set a global variable to stop the update loop in the main thread with some items staying untreated and to be done in the next run. cups-browsed is using an excessive amount of CPU ( Ubuntu bug #2018504): Bug got introduced by the addition of multi-threading support.
All PDFs when printed come out mirror image ( Ubuntu bug #2018538): Bug occured with all PPDs with “MirrorPrint” option, setting of the option (“True”/“False”) was not considered. cups-filters: To finalize the 2.0.0 release, worked on first bugs which got reported by users of Ubuntu 23.04 and Fedora 38 (the first 2 distros with cups-filters 2.x, there was a cups-filters 2.x release party on the LAS 2023 in Brno):. Here some highlights and post-News updates: See my OpenPrinting May News for what happened in the last weeks. Sorry, was busy during last week (LAS 2023, Engineering Sprint, OpenPrinting Summit) and therefore not writing here. Next week is the GNOME 44.2 release so we’ll be packaging it!. Received recognition from Google for my work packaging GNOME for Debian and Ubuntu. Miscellaneous package updates and sponsoring of team uploads.
Worked with Debian’s Matthias on Rust GTK library packaging. Worked with Till to enable the new CPDB CUPS print backend in Ubuntu 23.10’s GTK4 package. Did a minor transition in Ubuntu 23.10 for babl, a library from the GNU Image Manipulation Program. Packaged gstreamer 1.22.3 for Ubuntu 23.10 and Debian Experimental. Filed MIRs for gtkmm4.0 and its dependencies (this is the C++ bindings for GTK4). Started packaging syndication-domination, a prerequisite for updating the. It also provides a library so you can use the functionality in the GNOME Builder app instead of in the standalone app. It can be used as a replacement for d-feet. Packaged d-spy for Debian Unstable and Ubuntu 23.10. Uploaded a gnome-dvb-daemon bugfix as a proposed update to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and newer Ubuntu releases. We need to land this fix before we can release the GNOME Shell 44.1 update. I also included the update to GTK4 4.10.3. Andreas recognized a regression triggered by the GNOME Shell update, so I uploaded a GTK4 fix for that. Uploaded GNOME Shell 44.1 as a proposed SRU for Ubuntu 23.04.