My plans are to patch the CUPS daemon to dynamically create queues to remote printers which are broadcasted via Bonjour, making CUPS behaving as before for the end user, but using Bonjour as broadcasting protocol. See
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-r-cups-bonjour- browsing Alternatively, I could create a separate daemon which listens to Bonjour broadcasts of printers and creates/removes CUPS queues pointing to the remote printers automatically. This extra daemon would eliminate the need of submitting any patch to CUPS upstream and carrying it as distro patch if upstream reject it. The extra daemon I could host as part of the cups-filters package and packagers of distros could put the daemon into a separate binary to allow admins to opt out of the extra daemon. ** Also affects: cups (Ubuntu Raring) Importance: Critical Assignee: Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) Status: Fix Released ** Changed in: cups (Ubuntu Raring) Status: Fix Released => Confirmed ** Changed in: cups (Ubuntu Raring) Milestone: ubuntu-12.10 => ubuntu-13.04-feature-freeze -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to cups in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1061069 Title: CUPS 1.6 has major incompatible changes. Do not use CUPS 1.6.1 on stable Ubuntu releases Status in “cups” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “cups” source package in Quantal: Fix Released Status in “cups” source package in Raring: Confirmed Status in “cups” package in Suse: Confirmed Bug description: Drastic changes in CUPS 1.6.1 (non Apple feature removed mostly) are detrimental to Ubuntu users. We should wait until the missing features (like automatic appearing of remote CUPS queues) before to unleash the newer version to users. This means downgrading cups in Quantal. See LP Bug 1061063 and Bug 1052897 for examples and the big list on Suse bugzilla : https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735404 for more informations. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: cups 1.6.1-0ubuntu9 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-16.25-generic 3.5.4 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-16-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CupsErrorLog: W [03/Oct/2012:07:36:11 +0200] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:profile id 'HP_LaserJet_P3010-Gray..' already exists W [03/Oct/2012:07:36:11 +0200] CreateDevice failed: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:device id 'cups-HP_LaserJet_P3010' already exists Date: Wed Oct 3 18:23:44 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120911) Lpstat: device for Brother: dnssd://Brother%20QL-570%20%40%20gland._ipp._tcp.local/cups device for HP_LaserJet_P3010: hp:/net/HP_LaserJet_P3010_Series?zc=laserjet MachineType: LENOVO 4293AA6 Papersize: a4 PpdFiles: HP_LaserJet_P3010: HP LaserJet P3010 Series Postscript (recommended) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=fr_CH:fr TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-16-generic root=UUID=529c6222-fe36-40b3-9692-581c477062a4 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: cups UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 04/25/2012 dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO dmi.bios.version: 8DET61WW (1.31 ) dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available dmi.board.name: 4293AA6 dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO dmi.board.version: Not Available dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO dmi.chassis.version: Not Available dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr8DET61WW(1.31):bd04/25/2012:svnLENOVO:pn4293AA6:pvrThinkPadX220:rvnLENOVO:rn4293AA6:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable: dmi.product.name: 4293AA6 dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X220 dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO modified.conffile..etc.cups.cupsd.conf: [modified] mtime.conffile..etc.cups.cupsd.conf: 2012-10-02T11:11:41.190220 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/1061069/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
