Bug#711709: cups-client: Unclear description in ipptoolfile(5)

["Didier 'OdyX' Raboud" <odyx@debian.org>]

Hi Helge, and thanks for your bugreport,

Le samedi, 8 juin 2013 21.53:40, Helge Kreutzmann a écrit :
> While translating I had trouble understanding if attribute names
> in ipptoolfile(5) are free form (i.e. like variable names) or are to
> be taken from a fixed set.
> 
> E.g. at the beginning, in
>     ATTR charset attributes-charset utf-8
> 
> Is »attributes-charset« a variable (could be "foobar") or a fixed
> name. I assumed the former, while other German translators pointed me
> to the latter.

I agree that the manpage is not overly clear. That said, I have just found 
that the IPP variable, values, etc, are all defined in [RFC2911]. This 
particular Request Operation Attribute, "attributes-charset" is defined in 
section-3.1.4.1 of that RFC document, so it's definitely both a variable 
(because there are other possible values) and a fixed name (because it's not 
fully free-form, the list of possible values being RFC2911).

Does that make it clearer? How would you like this bug to be fixed in the cups 
source package?

Cheers,

OdyX

[RFC2911] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2911