[cups-devel] Status of the 1.7 branch ?

[Didier 'OdyX' Raboud]

Hi Mike,

I'm a bit unclear with regards to the status of the 1.7 branch of cups, 
specifically: 

* Are further 1.7.x releases planned? Until when?

As you might know, Debian releases "when it's ready", but history as 
shown that stable releases have to be security-maintained for roughly 3 
years (~2 years between stable releases, 1 year overlap). The current 
plan is to freeze on 5. November 2014, with a release some months after 
that; therefore supported approximately until 2018. We are interested to 
know which CUPS branch should be shipped with our next stable release: 
1.7.x or 2.x? What do you envision?

* What is the status of the branch-1.7 on the git [0] ?

It's current revision corresponds to svn's r11429 and predates the 1.7.1 
release. Are fixes committed to this branch but not pushed? It'd be 
quite useful to have a public updated 1.7.x branch, to see what fixes 
are included. Similarly, a timeline for future 1.7.x releases would be 
very useful: I'm currently cherry-picking fixes from the 2.0 branch 
because I don't know whether a 1.7.2 is bound to happen (and when).

I don't want to sound to too critical: having this repository is very 
useful!

With my best regards, cheers,

OdyX

[0] https://cups.org/software.php#GIT