Greatly simplify the man page handling.

[thirdparty/cups.git] / man / cupsd-helper.8

diff --git a/man/cupsd-helper.man b/man/cupsd-helper.8
similarity index 79%
rename from man/cupsd-helper.man
rename to man/cupsd-helper.8
index d866780fb5e35662623096aecae57783927daf2e..bfd2e456e735072cf66af1123195b66f2d9a7bab 100644 (file)
--- a/man/cupsd-helper.man
+++ b/man/cupsd-helper.8
@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
 .\"
 .\" cupsd-helper man page for CUPS.
 .\"
 .\"
 .\" cupsd-helper man page for CUPS.
 .\"

-.\" Copyright 2007-2014 by Apple Inc.
+.\" Copyright 2007-2019 by Apple Inc.

 .\" Copyright 1997-2006 by Easy Software Products.
 .\"
 .\" Copyright 1997-2006 by Easy Software Products.
 .\"

-.\" Licensed under Apache License v2.0.  See the file "LICENSE" for more information.
+.\" Licensed under Apache License v2.0.  See the file "LICENSE" for more
+.\" information.

 .\"
 .\"

-.TH cupsd-helper 8 "CUPS" "15 April 2014" "Apple Inc."
+.TH cupsd-helper 8 "CUPS" "26 April 2019" "Apple Inc."

 .SH NAME
 .SH NAME

-cupsd\-helper \- cupsd helper programs
+cupsd\-helper \- cupsd helper programs (deprecated)

 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B cups\-deviced
 .I request-id
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B cups\-deviced
 .I request-id


@@ -73,6 +74,10 @@ archives to further reduce their size.
 .LP
 Driver information files must conform to the format defined in
 .BR ppdcfile (5).
 .LP
 Driver information files must conform to the format defined in
 .BR ppdcfile (5).

+.SH NOTES
+CUPS printer drivers, backends, and PPD files are deprecated and will no longer be supported in a future feature release of CUPS.
+Printers that do not support IPP can be supported using applications such as
+.BR ippeveprinter (1).

 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR backend (7),
 .BR cups (1),
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR backend (7),
 .BR cups (1),


@@ -82,4 +87,4 @@ Driver information files must conform to the format defined in
 .BR ppdcfile (5),
 CUPS Online Help (http://localhost:631/help)
 .SH COPYRIGHT
 .BR ppdcfile (5),
 CUPS Online Help (http://localhost:631/help)
 .SH COPYRIGHT

-Copyright \[co] 2007-2018 by Apple Inc.
+Copyright \[co] 2007-2019 by Apple Inc.