[Pkg-cups-devel] CUPS 1.2.0

[Martin Pitt]

Hi Roger, hi Kenshi,

Kenshi Muto [2006-05-10 21:01 +0900]:
> At Wed, 10 May 2006 12:41:33 +0100,
> Roger Leigh wrote:
> > I know that cupsys 1.2.0 has been in experimental for quite some time
> > now.  With the official 1.2.0 release a few days ago, I was wondering
> > what the plans were for getting it into Etch.
> 
> Yes, I'd like to upload cupsys 1.2.0 to Sid and Etch during Debconf6.
> Because I'm so busy at this time, my working will start from next week.

I put 1.2.0 into svn head and works quite well. (1.2rc3 -> 1.2.0 was
the first update I have ever seen that didn't introduce regressions,
yay!  :) )

> > Is any assistance required with anything particular?
> > Is there anything driver maintainers should be doing to integrate with
> > the new cupsys packaging?
> 
> AFAIK almost packages can still work with cupsys 1.2.
> I've already tried to recompile some packages and seen they worked.

Right, the client library API is compatible to 1.1. Upstream tested
mixing 1.1 clients and 1.2 servers, and vice versa.

> A bit problem is kprinter, it uses the function removed from
> libcups2 and shows an error dialog (although can continue to work).
> I dunno whether it solves by recompile or not.

No, KDE upstream is in pretty bad shape for cups 1.2. Since we use 1.2
in Ubuntu, we have some nasty hacks which make KDE printing work
reasonably with 1.2. Please contact Jonathan Riddell
<jriddell at ubuntu.com> for that.

Thanks,

Martin

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