> I suggest for an SRU in Quantal only to suppress the Apport pop-ups of
the crashes somehow, as a workaround.

The simplest, but rather blunt, method is to add a file
"/etc/apport/blacklist.d/cups" to a cups SRU with "/usr/sbin/cupsd".
However, that would suppress *all* cups crashes, not only this one.

In order to filter out only this one in a way that completely avoids the
popup (as opposed to saying "we already know about this crash"), the
crash needs to be suppressed in the daemon. If you know the place where
it crashes, you could temporarily install a SIGSEGV signal handler, then
call the potentially crashing code path, and restore it. However, this
is pretty hackish, and I wonder if there wouldn't be a more appropriate
fix such as adding a NULL pointer check somewhere etc.

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