[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#345973: Reporting this upstream while making sure it works for kdeprint 3.5.3?

[Martin Steigerwald]

Hello,

while I understand that technically spoken kdeprint does not play nice 
with the CUPS configuration files, I think that a change in CUPS 
configuration file layout should not break kdeprint. Apart from all of 
its quirks KDE-Print IMHO is still the most comprehensible printing 
frontend available as OSS. And I believe that its used widely and many 
users will complain when they cannot use it anymore.

I suggest the following approach: Make sure that kdeprint in its current 
(3.5.3-1) version can work with CUPS 1.2 while reporting bugs in 
kdeprints CUPS configuration file handling upstream, so that it might be 
fixed with kdeprint 3.5.4 oder 3.5.5.

I am willing to help with that but I need to know the details of what 
should be reported.

That said, I was able to configure a printer with kdeprint 3.5.3-1 and 
CUPS 1.2.1. But I did not try to dig into listening settings.

Regards,
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Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de