CUPS patch and request for review

Aurelien Jarno aurelien at aurel32.net
Wed Nov 16 21:40:40 UTC 2005


Brian M. Carlson a écrit :
> I managed to patch CUPS with a fix so that it recognizes FreeBSD devices.  
> Basically, everywhere there was a "defined(__FreeBSD__)" I simply added a "|| 
> defined(__FreeBSD_kernel__)".  Now, I know you are going to say that we are 
> much more like Linux (considering we are using glibc), but in this case CUPS 
> is interested in devices, which we don't share with Linux.  Therefore, I 
> believe the patch is correct.  With it, I can print to my HP DeskJet 5740 
> with the included CUPS driver and lpinfo gives me the following:
> 
Your patch has been included in the latest upload to experimental, and 
the package has been built successfully by the autobuilder. You may have 
a try of it.

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