[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#426521: cupsys-bsd: can indeed be used without CUPS

[Martin-Éric Racine]

severity 426521 important
thanks

> When installing the cupsys-bsd on a machine which is in a local net with
> a cups server, I cannot do anything until I also install the cupsys
> package.
>  Either the cupsys-bsd requires the cupsys package to work and the
> severity is correct.
>  Or cupsys-bsd can be useful without the cupsys package. In this case,
> please downgrade the severity. But recommands and/or documentation about
> this configuration should be added in the cupsys-bsd package in my opinion.

cupsys-bsd can indeed be used on its own, such as in spooler-less
operation. In that case, the CUPS or IPP printer to which we are
connecting must be configured in /etc/cups/client.conf manually.


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Martin-Éric Racine
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