Bug#797118: system-config-printer hangs after double-click on printer or show printer-configuration-dialog

[Terry Watt]

I solved this problem by downloading the tarball for version 1.4.8 from 
http://cyberelk.net/tim/data/system-config-printer/ and extracting options.py to 
/usr/share/system-config-printer/ .  After doing so, system-config-printer seems 
to be working normally again.

So evidently this bug has been fixed in newer releases, although I did not find 
a bug report related to this upstream.