Latest CUPS version with serial backend?

[Helge Blischke]

Akki San wrote:

> 
> Which old version of CUPS is the latest that supports
> the serial backend?
> 
> Or is there any other trick, workaround or whatever
> to make this work with 1.6.x?

The serial (and parallel) backend(s) have ben removed starting with cups 
1.6.x but are still (and will be, AFAIK) available with the cups-filters 
package from openprinting.org.

Helge