Re: Issue with adminutil.h Removal in libcups3

Tarun,

> On Mar 23, 2025, at 5:14=E2=80=AFAM, Tarun srivastava =
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi Maintainers,
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> I=E2=80=99m working on porting the KDE Print Manager from CUPS 2.x =
APIs to
> CUPS 3.x APIs and have encountered an issue related to libcups3
> functions and macros.
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> Currently, KDE relies on the macros and functions from adminutil.h to
> interact with the CUPS server and later use this result in UI
> components. However, since adminutil.h has been removed from libcups3,
> I=E2=80=99m unsure how to proceed.
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> Could you guide me on how to interact with the CUPS server without =
adminutil.h?

CUPS 3.x changes a lot of the assumptions people have made about how =
CUPS (and printing) works.

*Most* users will only ever use/interact with cupslocald, the per-user =
print spooler which will have very limited configuration options - =
basically just "configuration profiles" to supplement mDNS/DNS-SD =
discovery.

The sharing server (cupssharingd) will likely have a configuration file, =
but mainly for things that are currently in cups-files.conf.  Other =
configurable things will be accessible via IPP operations.

So the short answer is: adminutil.h is only for CUPS 2.x and earlier.

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Michael Sweet