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 * Deprecated the usblp kernel module for USB printers and used libusb instead. CUPS upstream recommended this instead of accepting our patch for a hybrid (support for both usblp and libusb) USB backend. CUPS upstream accepted our patches for USB URI migration and for broken device ID support (USB-to-parallel adapters). (TillKamppeter)
 * Investigations on firmware file upload into HP's cheapo laser printers. (TillKamppeter)
 * Created a report listing bugs that are affecting a good quantity of users, please review it at [[http://people.canonical.com/~pedro/desktop/]] so i can customize the report for your specific area. (PedroVillavicencio)
 * deja-dup got Ubuntu One support (mterry)
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 * Cairo now has the EGL/GL backend re-enabled; this reopens https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cairo/+bug/725434, where each process that links with nvidia's libGL dirties a substantial amount of extra memory. We need to decide what to do about this.  * Cairo now has the EGL/GL backend re-enabled; this reopens https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cairo/+bug/725434, resulting in nvidia's libGL causing each process that links with cairo (ie: anything that links to GTK) dirty about an additional 5MiB of memory. We need to decide what to do about this.

Actions from previous meeting

Actions from this meeting

Weekly Summary

  • natty-proposed now has Firefox 5 and new language packs; please help testing where you can. (pitti)

  • Apport retracer should be working again for natty/lucid. (pitti)
  • Code for http://status.ubuntu.com/ now got merged into lp:launchpad-work-items-tracker, will be announced officially soon. (pitti)

  • Deprecated the usblp kernel module for USB printers and used libusb instead. CUPS upstream recommended this instead of accepting our patch for a hybrid (support for both usblp and libusb) USB backend. CUPS upstream accepted our patches for USB URI migration and for broken device ID support (USB-to-parallel adapters). (TillKamppeter)

  • Investigations on firmware file upload into HP's cheapo laser printers. (TillKamppeter)

  • Created a report listing bugs that are affecting a good quantity of users, please review it at http://people.canonical.com/~pedro/desktop/ so i can customize the report for your specific area. (PedroVillavicencio)

  • deja-dup got Ubuntu One support (mterry)

Partner update

Unity

Software Center

Kubuntu

X.org

  • Mesa upload (and subsequent Xserver upload) blocked on llvm-2.9 MIR (Bug #790204)
    • Extended the dricore patch to also factor out a shared Gallium library; saves a couple of megabytes of CD space
  • nvidia-current multiarch patch sent to Alberto Milone.
  • Cairo now has the EGL/GL backend re-enabled; this reopens https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cairo/+bug/725434, resulting in nvidia's libGL causing each process that links with cairo (ie: anything that links to GTK) dirty about an additional 5MiB of memory. We need to decide what to do about this.

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IRC log Eastern edition

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