[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#333746: cupsys: CUPSYS needs an interface for easy reinstall of updated PPDs

[Roger Leigh]

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Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh at debian.org> writes:

> CUPS lacks a proper interface for automated update of PPDs.  This causes
> updates in hpijs that require up-to-date hplip-ppds/foomatic-filters-ppds
> PPDs to silently break printing on people's systems, often in very annoying
> ways.

Check out cups-genppdupdate in cupsys-driver-gutenprint.  This is used
to merge current settings with a new PPD file.  While this
implementation is a horrible hack in perl, and is Gutenprint-specific,
I would like to see a generic implementation which is more widely
useful.

If you use cupsys-driver-gutenprint, you might have noticed that the
PPDs get upgraded automatically.  This should be possible for other
drivers as well.  Feel free to reuse the code; it's GPL.


Regards,
Roger

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