On 23/12/2022 22:01, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
the next Debian release will still have cups-filters 1.x
As long as libppd is independent of cups-filters 2.x (at least I
understood your first email this way), the new libppd could be already
added.
The new libppd needs libcupsfilters 2.x, so it needs the new
cups-filters generation.
So I will switch over Ubuntu-only for now and everything gets a
rehearsal on Ubuntu 23.04 (probably only cups-filters 2.x and perhaps
also CPDB-based print dialogs, New Architecture optional via CUPS Snap
and PPA) and on Ubuntu 23.10 (New Architecture using CUPS Snap 2.4.x or
2.5.x, cups-filters 2.x, CPDB-based print dialogs, G-C-C with new
Printers module, printer drivers as Printer Application Snaps).
So both Ubuntu 23.04 LTS and the next Debian release will run with full
New Architecture (Ubuntu with CUPS Snap 3.x, Debian with CUPS DEB
packages 3.x), with the components already having being tested,
debugged, and refined for several months (in the "small" Ubuntu releases).
So we leave the upcoming Debian completely untouched (or
maintenance/hardware-enablement-only) in terms of printing, to keep it
as stable as possible and switch only over when all is already
well-tested and established by Ubuntu (and I got told "It works better
than Windows/Mac." on several more conferences ...).
What concerns legacy libppd would mean that we could kill off this old
stuff in Ubuntu only, simply removing it on syncing it from Debian any
more (Seb, WDYT?) and for Debian we only need to decide on how to
proceed once the release is out (when will this be?) and development has
re-opened for the next Debian release.
WDYT?
Till
