[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#343292: cupsd: Child exited with status 98!

[G. L. Gragnani]

Package: cupsys
Version: 1.1.23-13
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

After the last upgrade the init script exited with the subject
message (actually the message is from cupsd itself) and
the daemon did not start.
The problem appears to be the contrary of bug  #319602.
In the present case I have a cupsd.conf with
the directive
Port 631
uncommented.
The same directive is included by the line (in cupsd.conf):
Include /etc/cups/cups.d/ports.conf
where the content of my ports.conf is simply:
Port 631

Commenting out the Include line make things work again,
however it is very strange that a repeated directive in conf file
is enough to render  cupsd unusable.

Best regards
G. L. Gragnani

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.80            Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.4.62          Debian configuration management sy
ii  gs-esp                   8.15.1.dfsg.1-1 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii  libc6                    2.3.5-8.1       GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcupsimage2            1.1.23-13       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsys2               1.1.23-13       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libgnutls12              1.2.9-2         the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libpam0g                 0.79-3          Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1                1.1.14-3        Library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1                  1.2.1-3         OpenSLP libraries
ii  patch                    2.5.9-2         Apply a diff file to an original
ii  perl-modules             5.8.7-9         Core Perl modules
ii  procps                   1:3.2.6-2       /proc file system utilities
ii  xpdf-utils               3.01-3          Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.3-8       compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cupsys recommends:
ii  cupsys-client           1.1.23-13        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  foomatic-filters        3.0.2-20050720-1 linuxprinting.org printer support 
ii  smbclient               3.0.20b-3        a LanManager-like simple client fo

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