Package: cups-browsed Version: 1.21.2-1 Severity: wishlist
With the introduction of cups 1.6.x the situation in respect to printing to remote print queues and printers would have been dire without the creation of cups-browsed. However, cups 2.2.4 and later has the ability (CUPS Issue #4993) to enumerate queues and printers in print dialogs and to auto-create a temporary print queue. This is used by applications having the Qt dialog and printing from the command line, although the GTK dialog still does its own thing. cups-browsed is installed by default because cups-daemon (quite rightly) recommends it. With the changed situation in CUPS and applications it would appear that cups-browsed has less relevance with regard to printer and print queue discovery and management. The Recommends field lists packages that would be found with the cups package because there is a strong dependency between it and cups-browsed. cups-browsed would still enhance cups if changed to a Suggests:. The installation of cups-browsed almost as a matter of course on many buster systems also masks bugs in CUPS and applications, as it will take over the management of queues/printers. A small example is CUPS Issue #5045. Another example is with okular. For me, it will not print to a temporary queue; with a local cups-browsed queue it will. This would probably pass unnoticed as things stand now. Regards, Brian.
