On 16.09.23 14:29, Christoph Biedl wrote:
One of the questions that I couldn't ask since we were already behind schedule: Assuming the next Debian release (~2025) will no longer ship cups2 at all, how does does affect the existing ecosystem around PPD? I might be wrong but I got the impression serveral packages will just drop out of that stable release simply because they won't be longer installable as they rely on cups2 packages. As this is a bit Debian-specific, perhaps somebody else can clarify? Also it's not important for me, I'm just a little courious :)
I am not as optimistic as Till is. A Debian release in 2025 means a freeze starting end of 2024. So the release of cups3 overlaps the freeze for Trixie and I don't think it is a good idea to make such a big change during a freeze. I guess Trixie will still have cups2 as the default and as much as possible of cups3 to let the user get used to the new thing.
I hope until Forky every print dialog can handle cups3 then ...
Droping lpr-based printing entirely is something I wouldn't object, but I lack the courage to trigger the process.
I asked on debian-devel, maybe there are some arguments for or against the old stuff.
Thorsten