Re: State of the PpdPrintingSpecification?

[Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com>]

Roger Leigh schrieb:
> Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com> writes:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> CUPS should include a symlink from /usr/share/cups/model to
> /usr/share/ppd, then it will pick up all the PPDs.  At this point I
> can switch to the new location and it will all continue working, with
> no missing or duplicated PPDs.  CUPS should continue to use
> /usr/share/cups/model for backward compatibility (user-installed PPDs,
> third-party PPDs etc.).

replacing the /usr/share/cups/model directory by a symlink is
"interesting", known from our /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc change.

I currently cannot see the rational about the single symlink vs. the
symlinks in the model subdirectory.