Re: State of the PpdPrintingSpecification?

[Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com>]

Roger Leigh schrieb:
> Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com> writes:
> 
>> Many packages still have the /usr/share/cups/model directory hardcoded,
>> in most cases it's derived from cups-config --datadir.  I'm proposing to
>> add an option --modeldir to cups-config, that points to /usr/share/ppd
>> on Debian based systems. A fallback safe call to get the model dir would be
>>
>>   d=$(cups-config --modeldir) || d=$(cups-config --datadir)/model; echo $d
>>
>> which would work for backports as well.
>>
>> Is anybody working on gutenprint to comply with the spec?
> 
> I can switch to using /usr/share/ppd/gutenprint at any time.  I would
> rather have the CUPS ppd symlink in place before making the change
> (/usr/share/cups/model/ppd -> /usr/share/ppd).

So cups shouldn't use /usr/share/ppd directly, but continue to use
/usr/share/cups/model as location for the ppd's? I'm confused, because
foomatic-filters-ppds doesn't ship that link anymore, but hpijs-ppds does.