[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#331706: cupsys-daemon from inetd

[Thomas Breitner]

Package: cupsys
Version: 1.1.23-12
Severity: wishlist


Hi,

i'd like to see cupsys not starting as normal standalone daemon, but from inetd. 

Why:
As a desktop-laptop-user I (others too?)  barely print. But everytime I boot the system I have to wait till the cupsys-daemon fires up - waiting endlessly for a print job. Most of the time cupsys gets stopped jobless when I shut down the system.

So:
I'd rather wait a litte bit longer for my rare printouts as for my system booting. In addition the cupsys-daemon uses system resources without anything to do - not very effective.

Solution:
Samba asks me (dpkg-reconfigure) wheter it should run as a standalone daemon or from inetd. Perhaps this would be a good idea for cupsys to?

Greetings,
thomas

PS: Hope my asumptions about inetd are accurate and apply technically-spoken also for cupsys.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (900, 'stable'), (22, 'unstable'), (20, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii  adduser             3.67                 Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2. 1.4.58               Debian configuration management sy
ii  gs-esp              8+8.15rc4.dfsg.1-2.1 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii  libc6               2.3.5-6              GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcupsimage2       1.1.23-12            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsys2          1.1.23-12            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libgnutls12         1.2.6-1              the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libpam0g            0.76-23              Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1           1.1.14-3             Library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1             1.2.1-2              OpenSLP libraries
ii  patch               2.5.9-2              Apply a diff file to an original
ii  perl-modules        5.8.7-5              Core Perl modules
ii  procps              1:3.2.5-1            /proc file system utilities
ii  xpdf-utils          3.01-1               Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.3-4            compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cupsys recommends:
ii  cupsys-client           1.1.23-12        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  foomatic-filters        3.0.2-20050720-1 linuxprinting.org printer support 
ii  smbclient               3.0.14a-6        a LanManager-like simple client fo

-- debconf information:
  cupsys/raw-print: true
  cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, socket, usb