[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#336684: cupsys: CUPS does not support IPv6

[Roger Leigh]

Package: cupsys
Version: 1.1.23-12
Severity: wishlist

The current cupsd does not allow using a Listen directive with
an IPv6 name, e.g. ip6-localhost as an alias for ::1.  This
means it's not possible to listen for incoming connections
on an IPv6 address.

httpGetHostByName does not support IPv6 name lookups, AFAICT.


Regards,
Roger

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii  adduser           3.77                   Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf- 1.4.58                 Debian configuration management sy
ii  gs-esp            8+8.15rc4.dfsg.1-2.1.1 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii  libc6             2.3.5-7                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       1.2.8-1                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      5.8.7-7                Core Perl modules
ii  procps            1:3.2.5-1              /proc file system utilities
ii  xpdf-utils        3.01-2                 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii  zlib1g            1:1.2.3-6              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 
pn  smbclient               <none>           (no description available)

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