Update cups-filters

Requests
1

Hi,

I’m having issues with my CUPS printing server and printing PDF’s. I’m getting errors about bad filters in cups-filters.

Apparently it was a bug that has been already fixed per this forum topic: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/62251

The version of cups-filters available in the apt-get install is pretty old.

I’d like to request this package to get updated.

Thanks!

2

Hi,

many thanks for your message. But I guess DietPi is the wrong recipient of your request. Because DietPi did not maintain any Debian packages. Packages are just installed from official sources. I guess you would need to get in touch with package maintainer and ask for an update.

3

Thank you for the reply. Can you please tell me what package source does the DietPi use, so I’d know where to add my request?

Thanks!

4

you can use following command to check which source is used.

apt policy <package>
5

Thank you for the info!

6

Lol I just checked their website for compiled binaries, a repo or such: Software - CUPS.org

Binary Releases

Free binaries are available elsewhere - search > Google > to find them.

:smiley:

Zero info about how to compile, requirements etc, however there is a configure.ac in the code, so starting with build essentials and autoconf and hit and fail yourself through the errors to find all dependencies etc.

Helpful are the Debian build logs: Build log for cups (2.3.3-2) on amd64 (link might become invalid quickly e.g. with next build)
Overview: Buildd status for cups (sid)
There you see the build dependencies, tools and steps they (basically the debhelper suite) does. This can often be followed 1 to 1 until the deb package build begins.

If someone is able to tinker around and find nice build options etc we might consider to provide own up-to-date packages, if those are too outdated in current Debian repo and benefits of new versions are worth it.