On 3/12/26 12:23 PM, Charles Curley wrote:
On Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:25:39 -0700
Paul Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
W [12/Mar/2026:00:57:05 -0700] Printer drivers are deprecated and
will stop working in a future version of CUPS. See
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/issues/103
I went to the link but I don't know enough to know what it means and
more importantly how I can fix printing.
When we deprecate a feature or capability in CUPS, we are
announcing the intention to stop supporting it in the next major
release of CUPS, in this case CUPS 3.0. Given the historical pace
of CUPS development, that usually means you have years to make the
transition. In the case of printer drivers, we made the conscious
choice to have Printer Applications in place before releasing CUPS
3.0. And since Linux distributions typically lag behind the
“bleeding edge” of CUPS development, you can expect to be able to
use printer drivers for few more years after CUPS 3.0 is released.
https://openprinting.github.io/cups/drivers.html
The current version of CUPS in trixie is 2.4.10-3+deb13u2. In
forky/sid, 2.4.16-1 (subject to change). So this likely won't affect
you for the foreseeable future.
Running sid. I upgraded hplip to 3.22.10+dfsg0-? when I saw the problem.
I do have cups 2.4.16-1
Furthermore, the intent appears to be to replace drivers in CUPS with
what they call printer applications. The existing printer applications
are based on the CUPS drivers they are replacing. So unless you have a
really oddball printer you are probably safe going to CUPS 3.0.
https://openprinting.github.io/cups/drivers.html
I don't understand enough of that to diagnose my problem.
Thank you,
Paul
Since I have no idea what your current problem is, I can't help you
with it. But I don't think the deprecation of drivers is related to
your problem.
