Re: Renaming cups to cups-base and depend on cups-filters

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>]

Looks good to me!

On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 3:38 AM, Pierre Pronchery <khorben%defora.org@localhost> wrote:
>                 Hey Benny, tech-pkg@,
>
> On 11/11/2017 10:40, Benny Siegert wrote:
>> That sounds totally sensible to me. Thanks for making cups suck a little
>> less.
>
> Great :)
>
> I am attaching my first attempt here. Does it look good?
>
> Please note this is not bumping anything nor updating references to
> cups-base's buildlink3.mk, with an exception for cups-filters where it
> would create a circular dependency otherwise. Let me know if it should
> be done right away though.
>
> I have tested this on NetBSD/amd64.
>
> Cheers,
> -- khorben
>
>> Pierre Pronchery <khorben%defora.org@localhost <mailto:khorben%defora.org@localhost>>
>> schrieb am Fr., 10. Nov. 2017, 19:00:
>>
>>                             Dear tech-pkg@,
>>
>>     I just figured that print/cups does not work as expected without
>>     print/cups-filters also being installed. Printing then fails with:
>>
>>     > Returning IPP client-error-document-format-not-supported for
>>     Send-Document
>>     in the logs, or with lp(1) complaining that
>>
>>     > Unsupported document-format "application/pdf
>>     Apparently this is the case since version 1.6.0, as some core
>>     functionality has been moved to cups-filter by then.
>>
>>     This made me lose more time than I feel comfortable admitting here. In
>>     order to avoid this for anyone (including myself) in the future, I would
>>     suggest to:
>>     - rename print/cups to print/cups-base
>>     - let print/cups-filters depend on print/cups-base instead
>>     - add a package print/cups depending on print/cups-base and
>>       print/cups-filters
>>
>>     Any comments/objections?
>>
>>     If I end up being tasked with this, I will need help to recursively
>>     update links to "../../print/cups-base/buildlink3.mk
>>     <http://buildlink3.mk>" and bump revisions
>>     as appropriate. As an intermediate step I could add a link in
>>     "../../print/cups/buildlink3.mk <http://buildlink3.mk>" depending on
>>     "../../print/cups-base/buildlink3.mk <http://buildlink3.mk>", build
>>     I would rather DTRT right away.
>>
>>     Cheers,
>
> --
> khorben



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