[feisty] Some packages include files in usr/local or opt

Indeed. Till, I confirmed that cupsys ships /opt/share/ppd. I guess this is due to one of your recent changes. Can you please revert this?

Should this be done for the beta? Otherwise I would make a CUPS 1.2.10 to cover all the recent upstream fixes.

I have added the /opt and /usr/local stuff to fulfill the drafted new LSB 3.2 requirements for printing. As there were also comnplaints by Tim Waugh from Red Hat, I think I will change these requirenments as LSB is contradicting with FHS by them. I will require from the driver packages to symlink their PPDs/PPD directories into the /usr/share/ppd directory by the post-install script.

Hi Till,

Till Kamppeter [2007-03-21 16:39 -0000]:
> Should this be done for the beta? Otherwise I would make a CUPS 1.2.10
> to cover all the recent upstream fixes.

No, right after beta is fine.

> I have added the /opt and /usr/local stuff to fulfill the drafted new
> LSB 3.2 requirements for printing. As there were also comnplaints by Tim
> Waugh from Red Hat, I think I will change these requirenments as LSB is
> contradicting with FHS by them. I will require from the driver packages
> to symlink their PPDs/PPD directories into the /usr/share/ppd directory
> by the post-install script.

Not sure about the details, but having cups *look* into /opt/ for PPDs
is fine. The package should just not create anything in /opt itself.

See attached debdiff for fix for gtk-qt-engine.debdiff. Waiting for some core-dev to sponsor the upload. ;-)

Thanks Luka!

 gtk-qt-engine (0.71~svn20070224-0ubuntu3) feisty; urgency=low
 .
   * Install files in /usr/share instead of /usr/local/share directory.
     Closes LP: #94353

I will change the printing requirements of LSB 3.2. PPD search directory will be only /usr/share/ppd. Driver packages installing to /opt or /usr/local should simply symlink their PPD directories to there.

Then I will remove the additional directories from the CUPS package.

At Red Hat they also did not like the idea of providing PPD directories in /opt and /usr/local.

Till, I think it is a good idea to have cups search in /opt/ppd/. It should just not ship this directory. It is trivial to make the searching robust against nonexisting directories, if it isn't already.

Corrected packages of CUPS you can find here now

http://www.linux-foundation.org/~till/tmp/ubuntu/feisty/cupsys/binary/

and the sources here:

http://www.linux-foundation.org/~till/tmp/ubuntu/feisty/cupsys/