libcups dependencies and linux apps printing

[Alexander Leidinger]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:05:40 +1000 Da Rock
<freebsd-ports at herveybayaustralia.com.au> wrote:

> I have chased down the issue with printing with cups and linux apps, 
> particularly acroread. Some of you may know how to do this already,
> but I've been debugging it myself for the past few hours- and
> googling my brains out.
> 
> The port maintainer for linux-f10-libcups is this list, so here I am. 
> The port requires dependencies on linux-f10-libgpg-error and 
> linux-f10-gnutls (also maintained by the list). How do we adjust this?

I had a look with "objdump -x ..../libcups* | grep NEEDED" and I only
see the dependency to gnutls. I committed this.

For the libgpg-error dependency I suggest you search in the the
involved binaries and libs with in a similar way than above for the
source of the dependency to libgpg-error.

> For that matter, the acroread port needs to depend on the libcups
> too. I'll have to contact the maintainer on that one.
> 
> My interest in this is that the acroreader is needed in the graphics 
> industry (almost a rule in Oz), and this would go a long way to
> helping out acceptance in that niche.
> 
> And before you mention it Alex: I can take over the maintainership of 
> both (if required), but I want to ensure my first works out ok
> beforehand.

For critical dependencies (ports which are depended upon by several
ports) it is better when a group of people maintain them (more people
are always welcome ;-) ).

Bye,
Alexander.

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