[Pkg-cups-devel] moving hp-check to hplip-dbg

[Mark Purcell]

On Thursday 15 April 2010 23:48:42 Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Problem is that hp-check depends on cups-config, which is in 
> libcups2-dev. Will we have to depend on libcups2-dev and pull in part of 
> the development stack with it?

IMHO, hp-check is using a build time component (cups-config) to do its run 
time dependency checking.  That is the issue.

hp-check doesn't depend on cups-config, Without libcups2-dev it reports 
incorrectly (run time -r):

$ hp-check -r
[...]

Checking for CUPS...
Status: scheduler is running
error: Version: (Not available. CUPS may not be installed or not running.)

[...]
Checking for dependency: CUPS - Common Unix Printing System...
OK, found.

As you can see from the results above, with libcups2-dev, hp-check does report 
correctly that the scheduler is running, and that the runtime dependency for 
CUPS is met. The thing it cannot determine without cups-config is what version 
of CUPS we are running.

> WDYT what should we do?

Replace the runtime call on cups-config with something that will give the 
version of the installed CUPS.

Unfortunately none of the binaries shipped with cups appear to report their 
version:

cups:
/usr/sbin/cupsd
/usr/sbin/cupsfilter

cups-client:
/usr/sbin/lpadmin
/usr/sbin/cupsaddsmb
/usr/sbin/lpinfo
/usr/sbin/lpmove
/usr/sbin/cupsctl
/usr/sbin/cupsaccept
/usr/bin/cancel
/usr/bin/lpstat
/usr/bin/lppasswd
/usr/bin/cupstestdsc
/usr/bin/lpoptions
/usr/bin/cupstestppd
/usr/bin/lp
/usr/sbin/reject
/usr/sbin/accept
/usr/sbin/cupsreject
/usr/sbin/cupsenable
/usr/sbin/cupsdisable


I would suggest with discuss with CUPS and get an Version string printed out, 
possible against; lpinfo and/or cupsd -t.

In the meantime I would move hp-check back into hplip and accept that we will 
get some false reporting, as shown above.

Mark

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