Bug#711169: cups-daemon: ipp printer browsing support removed

2013-06-06 Thread Helmut Grohne
Sorry for the delay on this urgent issue. On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 01:09:28PM +0200, Till Kamppeter wrote: > Your patch is a first step to inform users about the need of > cups-browsed. Suggestion to improve it: Explicitly mention that the > configuration settings have to be done in /etc/cups/cups-

Bug#711169: cups-daemon: ipp printer browsing support removed

2013-06-05 Thread Till Kamppeter
Thank you very much for the bug report and the patch. The hard switchover from IPP-only broadcasting to Bonjour-only broadcasting on the transition from CUPS 1.5.x to 1.6.x is really bad. cups-browsed is indeed the only solution to get Bonjour browsing to conserve the configuration-less client fe

Bug#711169: cups-daemon: ipp printer browsing support removed

2013-06-05 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 10:14:20AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > As a first step I ask for an entry in NEWS.Debian, telling users about > the issue. This helps users not finding their printing setup being > broken for no obvious reason. This might also reduce the amount of bug > reports for this is

Bug#711169: cups-daemon: ipp printer browsing support removed

2013-06-05 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: cups-daemon Version: 1.6.2-8 Severity: normal Somewhere between 1.5.3-5 and 1.6.2-8 the support for IPP printer browsing was removed. This was a decision of cups upstream (i.e. some big fruit company). Still it breaks a legitimate use case: Having printers on a network just work. For what