So this is a bug in cups-browsed?

Am Do., 30. März 2023 um 19:23 Uhr schrieb Brian Potkin <
claremont...@gmail.com>:

> On Thu 30 Mar 2023 at 15:54:09 +0200, Johan Kröckel wrote:
>
> > Hi Brian,
> >
> > thanks for your help. But isn't it still a bug that cups is creating a
> > printer(-queue) that not only does not work, but also when using it opens
> > connections to the printer for hours? I think about the situation, that
> you
> > have many bookworm clients in the network, this could amount to a denial
> of
> > service.
> >
> > I deleted the not working Kyocera_ECOSYS_M5526cdw but cups keeps
> recreating
> > it when I connect to the corresponding network.
>
> The auto-creation of the queue (the one shown by 'lpstat -t' and that keeps
> coming back after deletion) is done by cups-browsed, not by CUPS. Let's try
> this:
>
> Purge cups-browsed with
>
>  apt purge cups-browsed
>
> Then do
>
>  rm  rm /var/cache/cups/*
>
> (the files will be regenerated) and restart cups.
>
>  systemctl restart cups
>
> 'lstsat -l -e' should show a printer name. Can it be used to print?
> 'lpstat -t'
> should not have implicitclass and should show the manually set up printer,
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brian.
>

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