[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#681851: escputil: requires module usblp which is blacklisted by CUPS

[Didier 'OdyX' Raboud]

Le mardi, 24 juillet 2012 17.52:18, Till Kamppeter a écrit :
> On 07/24/2012 09:09 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> > Now for Wheezy, I can't have a solid enough on the changes introduced
> > after 1.5.3-1. 1.5.3-2 didn't migrate because the mips build failed; I
> > suspect this can be solved by a build on (currently down)
> > ball.debian.org.
> > 
> > Till: are there atomic changes done since 1.5.3-1 that would be worth
> > integrating into Wheezy? (…)
> 
> The changes are the following:

Till: many thanks. As you have seen on bug #683730 , I have prepared a cups 
upload targetted at Wheezy and pushed the changes to a debian-wheezy bzr 
branch there:

http://anonscm.debian.org/loggerhead/pkg-cups/cups/debian-wheezy/changes

> 3. Blacklisting of the usblp kernel module: In CUPS 1.5.3 the USB kernel
> module is blacklisted to work around several problems of the
> libusb-based USB CUPS backend. This causes other problems, especially
> ink level checkers like escputil and ink do not work, but also some CUPS
> backends coming with proprietary drivers from printer manufacturers do
> not work.
> 
> In 1.5.3-3 I have lifted the blacklisting again as with the fixes of the
> USB backend (2) the blacklisting is not needed any more.

A small comment on that one, I implemented it differently (and I think, in a 
more robust way, by relying on dh_installdeb' .maintscript file), see:

http://anonscm.debian.org/loggerhead/pkg-cups/cups/debian-wheezy/revision/1168

In particular, note that the version in "…-2~" as recommended by dpkg-
maintscript-helper. It would be good to have that in future CUPS versions to 
avoid an unnecessary diff.

> Printer driver packages should always use the CUPS trigger and never
> their own PPD file updaters in their maintainer scripts, please check.

For that, I have convinced the ghostscript maintainers to do the last needed 
change from postinst to triggers (see #520753).

> Bug #682426 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=682426) is
> not a CUPS bug. It needs to get reassigned to Ghostscript.

Done, many thanks for your input!

Cheers,

OdyX
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