Package: cupsys Version: 1.1.23-13 Severity: important I'm filing my mailing list message as a bug, since it didn't receive a response when sent to the mailing list directly.
In summary, the splitting out of the Port and Listen settings has broken Kprinter. Details below. Thanks, Christopher Martin > On Tuesday 20 December 2005 15:28, Martin Pitt wrote: > > No, it is a pain, because cupsd.conf is a big conffile that gets > > changed in cups from time to time. No need to bother users with dpkg > > questions if they only changed Ports/Listen parameters. > > > > Packages should not modify conffiles of other packages, i. e. kprint > > modify /etc/cups/cupsd.conf. They may, however, change other package's > > configuration files, so splitting out these settings into separate > > files actually helps these packages. > > I'm not sure I understand the distinction you're making here. In any > case, kprinter configures CUPS by modifying /etc/cups/cupsd.conf; it can > alter many settings, including those related to Port and Browsing. Now > that these the Port and Browsing settings have been split out, trying to > configure CUPS using kprinter results in an error, where kprinter > complains about unknown items "include", and decides to leave them to be > safe. The problem is that if you use kprinter to configure CUPS, you will > wind up two sets of Port/Browsing settings; one in cupsd.conf (put there > by kprinter), and one from the included files. If this works at all, it > will cause user confusion about which setting to change, leading them to > think they may be making CUPS secure when it isn't, overriding the > settings they think they set with debconf, etc. In other words, this > change has made kprinter broken and dangerous. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
