Package: cups
Version: 1.4.8-2
Severity: wishlist
Hi dear CUPS maintainers,
I would like cups to implement a dpkg trigger to update it's queues' PPDs on
driver upgrades.
This task is currently implemented (and duplicated) in each printer driver, as
a postinst. See e.g. c2esp, m2300w, foo2zjs,
tags 637978 + patch
thanks
Le mardi, 16 août 2011 10.14:51, Didier Raboud a écrit :
I would like cups to implement a dpkg trigger to update it's queues' PPDs
on driver upgrades.
(…)
I plan to provide a patch, soon.
Here it is, please comment.
Cheers,
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OdyX
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On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:14:51AM +0200, Didier Raboud wrote:
I would like cups to implement a dpkg trigger to update it's queues' PPDs on
driver upgrades.
This task is currently implemented (and duplicated) in each printer driver, as
a postinst. See e.g. c2esp, m2300w, foo2zjs,
Roger,
my postinst scripts (which OdyX uses for his trigger solution) conserve
the default settings by replacing the PPD files using lpadmin -m. They
also support PPDs which do not exist physically but get generated on the
fly (listing available PPDs with lpinfo -m and requesting them with
Hi all,
just a short mail summarizing the discussions we had on #ubuntu-devel
regarding this proposal.
The current plan is:
1) externalize the current postinst code to an external program, based on the
current cupsppdupdater code in pkg-printing-tools.
2) Have cups trigger on files under
tags 637978 + patch
thanks
So, after some more work and thoughts, here is a new patch proposal
(attached).
Le mardi, 16 août 2011 13.14:13, Didier Raboud a écrit :
The current plan is:
1) externalize the current postinst code to an external program, based on
the current cupsppdupdater code
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