[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#375907: Upgrade to cupsys 1.2.1-3 defines server: /var/run/cups/cups.sock:631 which fails

[David Liontooth]

Package: cupsys
Version: 1.2.1-2
Severity: normal


The recent upgrade to cupsys 1.2.1-3 defines the server from localhost:631 to 
/var/run/cups/cups.sock:631 for user root (but not for non-root users). This
value fails; kprinter for instance says it cannot contact the cups server.

In KDE's printer control module, selecting Print Server | Configure server 
produces this error message:

  Unable to configure print server. Error message received from manager:

  Unable to retrive configuration file from the CUPS server. You probably
  don't have the access permissions to perform this operation.

This is in Administrator mode after entering the root password.

Downgrading to cupsys 1.2.1-2 fixes the server problem, though not the server 
configuration permission problem.

I realize this is sid and things will break, but isn't the change of server 
address a significant change that should be accompanied by a warning? 

Dave

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.90            Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.2           Debian configuration management sy
ii  gs-esp                   8.15.1.dfsg.1-2 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii  libc6                    2.3.6-15        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcupsimage2            1.2.1-3         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsys2               1.2.1-3         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-2              0.62-3          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgnutls13              1.4.0-2         the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libldap2                 2.1.30-13+b1    OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g                 0.79-3.1        Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1                1.1.19          Library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1                  1.2.1-5         OpenSLP libraries
ii  lsb-base                 3.1-10          Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  patch                    2.5.9-4         Apply a diff file to an original
ii  perl-modules             5.8.8-6         Core Perl modules
ii  procps                   1:3.2.7-1       /proc file system utilities
ii  xpdf-utils [poppler-util 3.01-8          Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.3-12      compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cupsys recommends:
ii  cupsys-client           1.2.1-3          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  foomatic-filters        3.0.2-20060530-1 linuxprinting.org printer support 
ii  smbclient               3.0.22-1         a LanManager-like simple client fo

-- debconf information:
* cupsys/raw-print: true
* cupsys/ports: 631
* cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, usb
  cupsys/portserror:
* cupsys/browse: true