[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#461405: cupsys-bsd: lpr fails to print due to missing spool directory

[Tim Cutts]

Package: cupsys-bsd
Version: 1.2.7-4etch2
Severity: important


We have cupsys-client and cupsys-bsd installed on client machines
without the cupsys package.  Using lpr to print on these machines fails
because the /var/spool/cups/tmp directory (which is managed by the
cupsys package) does not exist.  It seems this directory should be
maintained by the libcupsys package, not the cupsys package?

Creating the missing directory with the correct permissions has solved
the problem, so this should be an easy fix.

Regards,

Tim

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages cupsys-bsd depends on:
ii  cupsys-client          1.2.7-4etch2      Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  cupsys-common          1.2.7-4etch2      Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  debconf                1.5.11etch1       Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                  2.3.6.ds1-13etch4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcupsys2             1.2.7-4etch2      Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libgnutls13            1.4.4-3           the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  netbase                4.29              Basic TCP/IP networking system

cupsys-bsd recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  cupsys-bsd/setuplpd: false


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