Combine print/cups-base, print/cups-client and print/cups-image into
print/cups and update it to 2.1.3. Also remove print/cups-pstoraster,
improve print/cups-filters, print/foomatic-* and update print/hplip to
3.16.2.
Long description:
First some background. When you hand a file to cups it sets up a chain of
filter programs that converts the file to something a printer understands.
Each filter has a cost associated with it and cups tries to find the
cheapest chain. Costs used to be configured in such a way that files were
first converted to PostScript. This could then be manipulated further (e.g.
putting multiple pages on one sheet) before finally being sent to a
PostScript printer or another filter like pstoraster which produces a raster
format understood by non-PostScript printer drivers. Nowadays most filters
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Release cups-* nad foomatic-* ports. Currently I have no enough
spare time for those ports.
I've submitted ports/186824 to update cups-* ports to version 1.7.0.
- Please welcome back Chris Petrik as maintainer of
these ports [1]
- Trim headers
- Remove indefinite article from COMMENT
- Convert tab to space in WWW lines
PR: ports/175415 [1]
Submitted by: Chris Petrik <c.petrik.sosa@gmail.com> [1]
Discussed with: bapt
