[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#526656: wishlist: set default printer as default not cups-pdf after 1st config

[Osvaldo La Rosa]

Package: cups
Version: 1.3.8-1lenny5
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


Hi,

I am not sure the qualification of this report is as severe as mentionned,
but it may cause problems of usability while it's description is a little
subtile detail regarding cups itself:
after you configure cups for the first time, you'll be able at that moment
to print a testpage;
when you reboot the system later, you'll see you are no longer able to use
the printer at all; reason:
cups had turned your Brother, Canon or whatever printer into cups-pdf, and
that doesn't work at all.
I declare it here as severe since this may have an impact for normal users
on the same computer who aren't administrators or hadn't such permissions to
modify and fix the problem.
The problem is that you have to re-enter in cups' configuration menu and
resete each time the Brother, Canon or so printer as default.
This is not specifi to Debian but also concerns the other deb-based distro
named Ubuntu.
Feel free to report this to cups if the problem is general and may concern
CUPS in any cases.
Anyway the impact is important, even if the bug is very little.

Thanx for fixing this for all CUPS/distros.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii  adduser         3.110                    add and remove users and groups
ii  cups-common     1.3.8-1lenny5            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  debconf [debcon 1.5.24                   Debian configuration management sy
ii  ghostscript     8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny1    The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  libavahi-compat 0.6.23-3lenny1           Avahi Apple Bonjour compatibility 
ii  libc6           2.7-18                   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcups2        1.3.8-1lenny5            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsimage2   1.3.8-1lenny5            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3     1.2.1-5                  simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgnutls26     2.4.2-6+lenny1           the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libkrb53        1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2   2.4.11-1                 OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g        1.0.1-5+lenny1           Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1       1.1.23+nmu1              library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1         1.2.1-7.5                OpenSLP libraries
ii  lsb-base        3.2-20                   Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  perl-modules    5.10.0-19                Core Perl modules
ii  poppler-utils [ 0.8.7-1                  PDF utilitites (based on libpopple
ii  procps          1:3.2.7-11               /proc file system utilities
ii  ssl-cert        1.0.23                   simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL

Versions of packages cups recommends:
pn  avahi-utils           <none>             (no description available)
ii  cups-client           1.3.8-1lenny5      Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  foomatic-filters      3.0.2-20080211-3.2 OpenPrinting printer support - fil
pn  smbclient             <none>             (no description available)

Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii  cups-bsd                1.3.8-1lenny5    Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  cups-driver-gutenprint  5.0.2-4          printer drivers for CUPS
pn  cups-pdf                <none>           (no description available)
ii  foomatic-db             20080211-2+nmu1  OpenPrinting printer support - dat
ii  foomatic-db-engine      3.0.2-20080211-1 OpenPrinting printer support - pro
ii  hplip                   2.8.6.b-4        HP Linux Printing and Imaging Syst
pn  xpdf-korean | xpdf-japa <none>           (no description available)

-- debconf information excluded