[Buildroot] Printing-related packages deprecated: cups, foomatic-filters, gutenprint and hplip

[Buildroot] Printing-related packages deprecated: cups, foomatic-filters, gutenprint and hplip

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

If you're interested in printing related packages in Buildroot, or
want to help Buildroot in general, read on.

We have just marked the "CUPS" package deprecated. It has not been
updated since May 2012, and our currently packaged version is 1.3.11
while upstream is at 2.0.2. Older versions such as 1.3.11 are known to
have major security issues, so we cannot continue to have it packaged
in Buildroot.

You can help by packaging CUPS 2.0.2, and also updating
foomatic-filters, gutenprint and hplip if needed.

Thanks for your help,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

[Buildroot] Printing-related packages deprecated: cups, foomatic-filters, gutenprint and hplip

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Olivier Schonken,

Please keep the list in Cc, thanks!

On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 00:05:08 +0200, Olivier Schonken wrote:

> Will look into it. Newer versions has a different structure with cups
> filters and other additional  dependencies, but I have a working 1.7
> running. Will do work to update to 2.0.2 and push to buildroot.

Awesome, thanks a lot!

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com