[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#616015: cups-client: should Recommends: or Suggests: smbclient for cupsaddsmb

[Luca Capello]

Package: cups-client
Version: 1.4.4-7
Severity: normal

Hi there!

cupsaddsmb uses smbclient to upload the drivers.  However, there is no
mention of it in cupsaddsmb manpage nor in /usr/share/doc/cups-client
nor in the package description.

To make this even worse, when called without having smbclient available,
cupsaddsmb starts getting crazy continuously trying to upload the very
same files, while it should simply exit telling that smbclient is not
available:
=====
root at tinello:/etc# cupsaddsmb -a -v -U root -H tinello
Password for root required to access tinello via SAMBA:
Running command: \
 smbclient //tinello/print$ -N -A /tmp/013f44d7c5e8a -c
 'mkdir W32X86;put /tmp/013f44d7033b6 \
 W32X86/HPe_Color-LaserJet-CM1017.ppd;put \
 /usr/share/cups/drivers/ps5ui.dll W32X86/ps5ui.dll;put \
 /usr/share/cups/drivers/pscript.hlp W32X86/pscript.hlp;put \
 /usr/share/cups/drivers/pscript.ntf W32X86/pscript.ntf;put \
 /usr/share/cups/drivers/pscript5.dll W32X86/pscript5.dll'

Unable to copy Windows 2000 printer driver files (2)!
Running command: \
 smbclient //tinello/print$ -N -A /tmp/013f44d7c60b4 -c \
 'mkdir W32X86;put /tmp/013f44d7033b6 \
 W32X86/HP_Color-LaserJet-CM1017.ppd;put \
 /usr/share/cups/drivers/ps5ui.dll W32X86/ps5ui.dll;put \
 /usr/share/cups/drivers/pscript.hlp W32X86/pscript.hlp;put \
 /usr/share/cups/drivers/pscript.ntf W32X86/pscript.ntf;put \
 /usr/share/cups/drivers/pscript5.dll W32X86/pscript5.dll'
=====

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers squeeze-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'squeeze-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cups-client depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.112+nmu2       add and remove users and groups
ii  cups-common             1.4.4-7          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-10        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcups2                1.4.4-7          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsimage2           1.4.4-7          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

cups-client recommends no packages.

Versions of packages cups-client suggests:
ii  cups                          1.4.4-7    Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  cups-bsd                      1.4.4-7    Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
pn  cups-pt                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  gtklp                         <none>     (no description available)
pn  kdeprint                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  xpp                           <none>     (no description available)

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