[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#562110: backend "socket" is removed on every apt-get upgrade of cups

[Lorenz]

Package: cups
Version: 1.4.2-5
Severity: important
Tags: patch

Im running a dell network printer (3100cn) since four years. After an upgrade performed in march or so the printing via cups hasn't worked any more. I've deleted the printer and installed it again. It was found without any hint of me but could not be saved. Some hours of nice googled lecture later I recognized, that the necessary backend binary "socket" was contained in backend-available but not in backend.

I copied the "socket" binary to backend, and cups was able to store the configuration and the printer was usable as before.

The problem is, that the manually copied binary is deleted every time when cups is upgraded.

I tried to install the cups-package from scatch, to reconfigure cups but it didn't changed this odd behavior.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.1_maeh (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii  adduser                3.111             add and remove users and groups
ii  bc                     1.06.95-2         The GNU bc arbitrary precision cal
ii  cups-client            1.4.2-5           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  cups-common            1.4.2-5           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.28            Debian configuration management sy
ii  ghostscript            8.70~dfsg-2       The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  libavahi-client3       0.6.25-2          Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3       0.6.25-2          Avahi common library
ii  libc6                  2.10.2-2          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcups2               1.4.2-5           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupscgi1            1.4.2-5           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsdriver1         1.4.2-5           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsimage2          1.4.2-5           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsmime1           1.4.2-5           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsppdc1           1.4.2-5           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.16-2          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcc1                1:4.4.2-5         GCC support library
ii  libgnutls26            2.8.5-2           the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.7dfsg~beta3-1   MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libijs-0.35            0.35-7            IJS raster image transport protoco
ii  libkrb5-3              1.7dfsg~beta3-1   MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2          2.4.17-2.1        OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g               1.1.0-4           Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1              1.1.23+nmu1       library for handling paper charact
ii  libpoppler5            0.12.2-2          PDF rendering library
ii  libslp1                1.2.1-7.6         OpenSLP libraries
ii  libstdc++6             4.4.2-5           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4           2:0.1.12-13       userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base               3.2-23            Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  perl-modules           5.10.1-8          Core Perl modules
ii  poppler-utils          0.12.2-2          PDF utilitites (based on libpopple
ii  procps                 1:3.2.8-2         /proc file system utilities
ii  ssl-cert               1.0.25            simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL
ii  ttf-freefont           20090104-5        Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii  cups-driver-gutenprint    5.2.4-1        printer drivers for CUPS
ii  foomatic-filters          4.0-20090509-1 OpenPrinting printer support - fil
ii  ghostscript-cups          8.70~dfsg-2    The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF

Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii  cups-bsd                  1.4.2-5        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  cups-pdf                  2.5.0-12       PDF printer for CUPS
pn  cups-ppdc                 <none>         (no description available)
ii  foomatic-db               20090616-1     OpenPrinting printer support - dat
ii  foomatic-db-engine        4.0-20090509-2 OpenPrinting printer support - pro
pn  hplip                     <none>         (no description available)
ii  smbclient                 2:3.4.3-2      command-line SMB/CIFS clients for 
ii  udev                      149-1          /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
pn  xpdf-korean | xpdf-japane <none>         (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  cupsys/raw-print: true
* cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, scsi, serial, usb, snmp, dnssd