su 22. tammik. 2023 klo 17.57 Till Kamppeter ([email protected]) kirjoitti: > These are harmless for now, as long as the target distro, like Bookworm > (and also Ubuntu 23.04 and 23.10) currently, uses a CUPS 2.x version > with libcups2. > > The deprecated functions get actually removed in CUPS 3.x which will get > released near the end of this year and so will be the CUPS version used > by Ubuntu 24.04 and of the first Debian release after Bookworm. > > Functionality of printing into a PDF file is nowadays provided by print > dialogs, so the situation does not change. cuṕs-pdf is to print to PDF > from the command line or to create a print queue not having a printer at > hand, for development and debugging. > > cups-pdf is currently a classic CUPS printer driver and would need to be > turned into a Printer Application, an emulation of an IPP printer. This > is the format of printer drivers in the world after PPDs being abolished. > > I can help you later on with that.
I was wondering if we could return to this now. I have only had sporadic contacts with upstream in recent months. Not only was he involved in COVID research, he has now become a father, so his spare time is extremely limited. He hasn't even found the time to merge the Ghostscript patch in the current branch and push out a minor release. However, the world moves on and CUPS support for drivers with PPD will eventually go. This seems like a good time for CUPS-PDF maintainers at the distros to take over maintenance. Martin-Éric
