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cups-browsed a Suggests:
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Package: cups-browsed
Version: 1.21.2-1
Severity: wishlist
With the introduction of cups 1.6.x the situation in respect to printing
to remote print queues and printers would have been dire without the
creation of cups-browsed. However, cups 2.2.4 and later has the ability
(CUPS Issue #4993) to enumerate queues and printers in print dialogs and
to auto-create a temporary print queue. This is used by applications
having the Qt dialog and printing from the command line, although the
GTK dialog still does its own thing.
cups-browsed is installed by default because cups-daemon (quite rightly)
recommends it. With the changed situation in CUPS and applications it
would appear that cups-browsed has less relevance with regard to printer
and print queue discovery and management. The Recommends field lists
packages that would be found with the cups package because there is a
strong dependency between it and cups-browsed. cups-browsed would still
enhance cups if changed to a Suggests:.
The installation of cups-browsed almost as a matter of course on many
buster systems also masks bugs in CUPS and applications, as it will take
over the management of queues/printers. A small example is CUPS Issue
#5045. Another example is with okular. For me, it will not print to a
temporary queue; with a local cups-browsed queue it will. This would
probably pass unnoticed as things stand now.
Regards,
Brian.
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On Mon 10 Sep 2018 at 15:16:44 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:
> Package: cups-browsed
> Version: 1.21.2-1
> Severity: wishlist
>
>
> With the introduction of cups 1.6.x the situation in respect to printing
> to remote print queues and printers would have been dire without the
> creation of cups-browsed. However, cups 2.2.4 and later has the ability
> (CUPS Issue #4993) to enumerate queues and printers in print dialogs and
> to auto-create a temporary print queue. This is used by applications
> having the Qt dialog and printing from the command line, although the
> GTK dialog still does its own thing.
>
> cups-browsed is installed by default because cups-daemon (quite rightly)
> recommends it. With the changed situation in CUPS and applications it
> would appear that cups-browsed has less relevance with regard to printer
> and print queue discovery and management. The Recommends field lists
> packages that would be found with the cups package because there is a
> strong dependency between it and cups-browsed. cups-browsed would still
> enhance cups if changed to a Suggests:.
>
> The installation of cups-browsed almost as a matter of course on many
> buster systems also masks bugs in CUPS and applications, as it will take
> over the management of queues/printers. A small example is CUPS Issue
> #5045. Another example is with okular. For me, it will not print to a
> temporary queue; with a local cups-browsed queue it will. This would
> probably pass unnoticed as things stand now.
The resounding silence is an indication of the quality of this report.
It was probably a naff idea. Closing.
--
Brian.
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