[Pkg-cups-devel] CUPS / libinklevel incompatibilities

Martin Pitt mpitt at debian.org
Wed Sep 30 11:28:57 UTC 2009


Hello Markus,

Markus Heinz [2009-09-17 21:54 +0200]:
> - The usblp kernel module has been blacklisted because it is no more
> necessary for the operation of CUPS.

To be precise, it actually broke cups with libusb mode.

> So what I ask you is to consider building the CUPS package with the
> option --enable-libusb=no. This would ensure that the aformentioned
> tools can be used in future debian versions.

Till landed a patch now which makes the USB backend work with both
usblp and libusb, so I removed the blacklisting (also on upgrade). So
this should make these tools work again.

Will upload in the next days.

Thanks,

Martin
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