Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Till Kamppeter <till.kamppe...@gmail.com>
* Package name : cpdb-libs Version : 1.1.2 Upstream Author : Nilanjana Lodh <nilanjanal...@gmail.com> * URL : https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cpdb-libs * License : MIT Programming Lang: C Description : Common Print Dialog Backends - Interface Library for Backends This is already packaged for Ubuntu. This is the long description of the Ubuntu package: The Common Print Dialog Backends project provides a D-Bus interface so that the print dialogs of GUI applications and the communication with the print technologies (CUPS/IPP, Google Cloud Print, Save to File, ...) are put into separate executables to be separately exchangeable. . The print dialogs of the different GUI toolkits and applications (GTK, Qt, LibreOffice, ...) are the frontends and to communicate with the different print technologies they use common backends. This way one simply adds new backends for new print technologies and updates the backends for changes in the print technologies, and immediately all applications are up-to-date, without need of modifying the code of the GUI toolkits or applications. . This package contains the library which provides the functions needed by both the frontends and the backends. The idea is to decouple the print dialog's GUI code (GTK, Qt, LibreOffice, ... The frontends) from the code which communicates with actual print technologies (CUPS, IPP, Google Cloud Print, Save to File, ... The backends) to make them independently interchangable. This way one can do things like - Add a new print technology and it is immediately available for all GUI apps. Especially an online print service provider could simply put its backend into the Snap Store and asks his Linux users to install it. - A change in a print technology, for example new functionality in CUPS, can be covered by simply updating the CUPS backend. No need to change all GUI libraries. - User logs in for Google Cloud Print once and not separately for each GUI platform to get his cloud printers into all the apps. - In case of a security bug in the communication code with one print technology only the backend needs to get fixed, not several GUI libs. This package contains the general libraries which especially provide a session D-Bus interface between the print dialogs (frontends) and the print technology backends. For this to work at least one print technology backend package is needed. These packages are suggested in separate bug reports. Of the GUIs LibreOffice already supports this system and only needs to get rebuilt with this library. Patches for GTK and a modified Qt print dialog are in the works. All packages are already available as Ubuntu packages in Ubuntu's Universe part. The maintenance in Debian should be done in the Debian Printing Team. I am not a Debian Developer but OdyX (Didier Raboud, o...@debian.org) is willing to upload these packages.