Merging upstream version 1.12.0.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

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+# cups.plugin
+
+`cups.plugin` collects Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) metrics.
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+This plugin needs a running local CUPS daemon (`cupsd`). This plugin does not need any configuration.
+
+## Charts
+
+`cups.plugin` provides one common section `destinations` and one section per destination. 
+
+> Destinations in CUPS represent individual printers or classes (collections or pools) of printers (https://www.cups.org/doc/cupspm.html#working-with-destinations)
+
+The section `server` provides these charts:
+
+1. **destinations by state**
+ * idle
+ * printing
+ * stopped
+
+2. **destinations by options**
+ * total
+ * accepting jobs
+ * shared
+
+3. **total job number by status**
+ * pending
+ * processing
+ * held
+
+4. **total job size by status**
+ * pending
+ * processing
+ * held
+
+For each destination the plugin provides these charts:
+
+1. **job number by status**
+ * pending
+ * held
+ * processing
+
+3. **job size by status**
+ * pending
+ * held
+ * processing
+  
+At the moment only job status pending, processing, and held are reported because we do not have a method to collect stopped, canceled, aborted and completed jobs which scales.