Package: cups-browsed Version: 1.0.61-5+deb8u3 Severity: important Tags: upstream
One of the changes introduced in cups-filters (1.0.55-1) was cups-browsed: Do not create a local queue pointing to a remote raw queue (LP: #1335211). This has consequences which impact sending a legitimate print job to a remote raw queue. For example, the remote queue might be set up with lpadmin -p booketprinter -v tea4cups:// -E -o printer-is-shared=true The intention is to have a queue dedicated solely to booklet printing using a Tea4CUPS hook employing the 'booklet' option of pdftopdf. As it stands now, command line users and users of non-GTK print dialogues would be unable to see the remote queue. (The GTK printing subsystem gets the bookletprinter queue directly from avahi-daemon, not via cups-browsed). A goodly portion of Tea4CUPS usefulness becomes unavailable but I am sure there are other use cases when a local queue which doesn't point to a remote raw queue would be unwelcome. Debian bug #756724 is relevant https://bugs.debian.org/756724 but I do not feel moving back to CUPS broadcasting and browsing is the route to take. In LP #1335211 it is said that The bug is in cups-browsed, it should not create local queues pointing to remote raw queues but only to remote queues which have already a driver so that such non-working queues do not appear. This I have fixed in cups-browsed now and this fix will be included in cups-filters 1.0.55. The "non-working" aspect arose because of a particular situation; the situation described above is a functioning one. Would it not be possible to have a configuration parameter in cups-browsed.conf? Regards, Brian. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages cups-browsed depends on: ii init-system-helpers 1.22 ii libavahi-client3 0.6.31-5 ii libavahi-common3 0.6.31-5 ii libavahi-glib1 0.6.31-5 ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u1 ii libcups2 1.7.5-11+deb8u1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.1-1 Versions of packages cups-browsed recommends: ii avahi-daemon 0.6.31-5 cups-browsed suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf changed [not included] -- no debconf information