CUPS version in -current

drumz · 08-06-2006, 08:17 PM

Does anyone know why Pat hasn't upgraded to version 1.2.x of CUPS in current? The last upgrade was 1.1.23 on Jan 15, 2005, and the last time he touched it was a recompile on Feb 9, 2006. According to http://www.cups.org/roadmap.php 1.1.x is no longer maintained and 1.2.x is the current stable branch. 1.2.0 was released May 8 (I'm assuming that's this year). Does this require a heads-up email to Pat, or is he holding back for some reason? Basically I'm just checking to make sure he hasn't already been bothered on this issue.

davidsrsb · 08-06-2006, 09:28 PM

Looking at how quickly CUPs went through 1.2.0, 1.2.1 and now to 1.2.2 I am not suprised. Maybe CUPS 1.2.2 is now stable enough.

Bruce Hill · 08-12-2006, 03:57 AM

The entire ChangeLog for Slackware-current August 11:

Quote:

Fri Aug 11 03:18:18 CDT 2006
a/aaa_elflibs-11.0.0-i486-7.tgz: Fixed libmm perms and location.
Thanks to Fred Emmott.
Upgraded libmm to 1.4.1.
Reverted to CUPS libraries from 1.1.23.
a/cups-1.1.23-i486-3.tgz: Reverted to cups-1.1.23 due to some applications
needing time to adjust to no longer having access to the private CUPS
functions. ;-) See below for more info.
a/etc-5.1-noarch-13.tgz: Upgraded /etc/services to include IPP (for CUPS) and
other new services. Thanks to Christophe Legras for reminding me to upgrade
this file, and to Two Beans for mailing me a more recent copy.
l/hicolor-icon-theme-0.9-noarch-2.tgz: Fixed slack-desc typo.
Reported by Willy Sudiarto Raharjo.
l/mm-1.4.1-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to mm-1.4.1.
Looks like libmm was split out of the Apache package just in time. ;-)
n/samba-3.0.23b-i486-2.tgz: Recompiled against CUPS 1.1.23.
n/sendmail-8.13.8-i486-2.tgz: Recompiled with DBROKEN_PTHREAD_SLEEP defined
in site.config.m4, which fixes a problem with libmilter.a that can cause
sendmail milters to be unstable. Thanks to Jan Rafaj for reporting this
bug, the fix, and for testing the problem so throughly.
n/sendmail-cf-8.13.8-noarch-2.tgz: Rebuilt.
n/tcpip-0.17-i486-37.tgz: Removed redundant copy of /etc/services.
testing/packages/cups-1.2.2/cups-1.2.2-i486-1.tgz: It seems as if KDE might
still not be 100% ready for CUPS 1.2.x, so we're going to move this into
/testing again for the release, but by all means use it if it works for you.
It did mostly work here, but the problems with using it with KDE are also
reproducable. Thanks to Thomas Hanslík for the information. Anyway, I had
my suspicions that *something* was going to have linked with private CUPS
functions or that this might break something in some way, but I also knew
this package would get better testing in slackware/a than in /testing. :-)
So, now we know that it's probably safer to wait on cups-1.2.x.
Thomas also mentioned a workaround -- editing cupsd.conf to comment
out this line:
# Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock

after this entry on August 9:

Quote:

Wed Aug 9 00:25:53 CDT 2006
a/cups-1.2.2-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to cups-1.2.2.

And, yes, we are moving towards a stable release.

drumz · 08-12-2006, 01:21 PM

I'd say that's a good enough reason to not upgrade. Didn't know about those problems until after reading the changelog myself. I also did some searching and it turns out that the KDE Print Manager uses private functions in cups. What do you know, the private functions changed. I guess as soon as the KDE guys get this straightened out we'll upgrade (probably to 1.3.x by then).

dunric · 08-12-2006, 03:26 PM

I've have encountered problems with printing after cups upgrade too.
I've found following record of reopened KDE bug which may explain it.