Hi, in Ubuntu we also want to have print functionality in the mobile version, Ubuntu Touch (therefore I also did the binary package splitting). As mobile devices run on battery and have limited RAM one should avoid keeping daemons running alll the time, especially if they are used infrequently, like the CUPS daemon.
Therefore I want to add a functionality to make the CUPS daemon startable on-demand and, if CUPS go started on-demand, stop when the print queues empty out. There exist already implementations for that, in upstream CUPS for the launchd of Mac OS X, and at Red Hat for systemd. There is a nice article available about the development of the systemd implementation: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/socket-activation2.html Ubuntu uses Upstart and not systemd, but it looks like that one can easily "translate" the systemd implementation to Upstart. See especially the "Bridges" section of the Upstart documentation here: http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#upstart-socket-bridge Now I do not want to make Ubuntu-only distro patches but find a solution which works on both Debian and Ubuntu (to avoid package delta, keeping synced) and ideally which can get submitted upstream. For this I want to know, how Debian starts services. Upstart? systemd? System V Init? Something else? Should we create a CUPS patch supporting all systems and submitting this upstream? WDYT? Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
