Re: ANNOUNCE: Gutenprint 5.2.9 Release (corrected)

> I updated pkgsrc to 5.2.9.  I didn't find any other packages (in pkgsrc)
> that linked against the gutenprint-lib package.  This didn't surprise
> me, because I didn't get dinged about 5.2.8 for not marking depending
> packages as needing rebuilding due to ABI changes :-)
>
> Because making split packages from gutenprint would require a lot of
> makefile patching that I don't have the energy for, there is only one
> package in pkgsrc that has the gimp plugin and cups support along with
> the library.  But I'd expect that on other packaging systems all the
> split packages would move from 5.2.7 to 5.2.8 simultaneously.  So I
> don't think that explains my local lack of dependencies.
>
> Can anyone tell me what packages typically link against the gutenprint
> library?  Is it things like photo viewers with printing options?  I'd
> like to understand so that I can at least add comments to their packages
> that perhaps they should use gutenprint.  (Although because our
> gutenprint-lib package depends on gimp, that isn't too likely to be
> default.)