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Forked CUPS on Linux Mint?

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According to this article at The Register and Michael Larabel via Phoronix, Apple appears to have abandoned CUPS after its creator Michael Sweet departed for another company.

Sweet continues development on IPP Everywhere, a "protocol that can be used by clients to print to networked or USB-connected printers without any special software". "The documentation and code samples for IPP Everywhere can be found here in repositories belonging to the IEEE-ISTO Printer Working Group."

The leader of the Linux Foundation's OpenPrint effort, Till Kamppeter, says "Due to dormant upstream development, we have discussed to creating a temporary fork on OpenPrinting [of CUPS] for bug fixes and distribution patches, and Michael Sweet has done it now."

OpenPrint's CUPS fork is here.

How does this impact the end-users of Linux Mint?
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Re: Forked CUPS on Linux Mint?

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How it impacts depends on what Debian and Canonical do about it. Initial IPP Everywhere provision is already in place but not working brilliantly for everyone yet

IPP over USB for example: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3969
The problem with ippusbxd though is that it just doesn’t work well so we’ll very likely have it removed in Linux Mint 20.1.
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