[cups] Completed jobs returned older first in 2.0?

[Michael Sweet]

Alex,

RFC 2911 only defines the order of 'completed' and 'not-completed'.  The other "which-jobs" values are defined in PWG 5100.11 without an ordering requirement.


> On Aug 31, 2015, at 3:24 PM, Alex Korobkin <korobkin+cups at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Do you mean https://www.cups.org/str.php?L4396 ?
> 
> It says this:
> 
>      - If the client requests all 'completed' Jobs (Jobs in the
>        'completed', 'aborted', or 'canceled' states), then the Jobs are
>        returned newest to oldest (with respect to actual completion
>        time)
> 
> However, I see oldest to newest when i click "See completed jobs" and
> newest to oldest when i click "See all jobs".
> 
> it is slightly confusing and I don't understand why the behavior should
> differ. RFC doesn't seem to state that.
> 
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:
> 
>> CUPS 2.0 fixed a long-standing bug with the order of jobs that were
>> returned so that we are now compliant with RFC 2911's requirements.  You
>> can click in the job ID field to reverse the order.
>> 
>> 
>>> On Aug 31, 2015, at 12:49 PM, Alex Korobkin <korobkin+cups at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> I'm testing CUPS 2.0.4 and noticed that completed jobs in Web UI are
>>> returned in the ascending order -- older jobs first. This is different
>> from
>>> the CUPS 1.7 and earlier versions.
>>> 
>>> Is it just me (I have multiple patches applied over CUPS UI) , or is it a
>>> new behavior in CUPS 2.x?
>>> 
>>> --
>>> -Alex
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> 
> 
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> -Alex
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