[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#376111: cupsys 1.2.1-2 (testing) should not enable browsing by default

[Kenshi Muto]

At Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:01:40 +0200,
Paul Coray wrote:
> This Package from 'testing' seems to set 'Browsing on' in 
> /etc/cups/cups.d/browse.conf. I experience major problems in our network 
> when a client has this enabled. All our Sarge--systems (with CUPS 1.1) 
> display the installed printers on the Testing-system, making it 
> impossible to print anything out of a Java-Applet we use (sun-j2re1.5 
> 1.5.0+update03).

Browsing parameter has two meanings.
1. Provides local printers to other hosts in LAN.
   (Typically Browsing On, Port 631)
2. Takes all of printers are broadcasted by other hosts in LAN.
   (Typically Browsing On, Listen localhost:631)

upstream and Debian CUPS takes only 2 by default. I think it's maybe
safe.
It's correct that 1 (as same as you say) is problematic on some
environments.

I think your testing environment was updated from stable (at least
you updated cupsys from 1.1 series). Because Debian CUPS 1.1 is
configured as Browsing On/Port 631 and we can't break its compatibility,
your testing server will broadcast local printers to LAN.

Therefore I'd like to close this bug or downgrade to wishlist+wontfix.

BTW since 1.2.1-3, cupsys doesn't ask about browsing/port parameters
and recommends to configure via Web browser.

Thanks,
-- 
Kenshi Muto
kmuto at debian.org