[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#345973: New cups configuration splitout breaks Kprinter

[Christopher Martin]

Package: cupsys
Version: 1.1.23-13
Severity: important

I'm filing my mailing list message as a bug, since it didn't receive a 
response when sent to the mailing list directly.

In summary, the splitting out of the Port and Listen settings has broken 
Kprinter. Details below.

Thanks,
Christopher Martin

> On Tuesday 20 December 2005 15:28, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > No, it is a pain, because cupsd.conf is a big conffile that gets
> > changed in cups from time to time. No need to bother users with dpkg
> > questions if they only changed Ports/Listen parameters.
> >
> > Packages should not modify conffiles of other packages, i. e. kprint
> > modify /etc/cups/cupsd.conf. They may, however, change other package's
> > configuration files, so splitting out these settings into separate
> > files actually helps these packages.
>
> I'm not sure I understand the distinction you're making here. In any
> case, kprinter configures CUPS by modifying /etc/cups/cupsd.conf; it can
> alter many settings, including those related to Port and Browsing. Now
> that these the Port and Browsing settings have been split out, trying to
> configure CUPS using kprinter results in an error, where kprinter
> complains about unknown items "include", and decides to leave them to be
> safe. The problem is that if you use kprinter to configure CUPS, you will
> wind up two sets of Port/Browsing settings; one in cupsd.conf (put there
> by kprinter), and one from the included files. If this works at all, it
> will cause user confusion about which setting to change, leading them to
> think they may be making CUPS secure when it isn't, overriding the
> settings they think they set with debconf, etc. In other words, this
> change has made kprinter broken and dangerous.