[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#427617: Bug#427617: cupsys-bsd: on upgrade remove lpr package; obscure warning.

[Martin-Éric Racine]

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On 6/5/07, Leonardo Boselli <leo at dicea.unifi.it> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, [UTF-8] Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > cupsys-bsd indeed conflicts with lpr, because it provides the same
> > service, that is a BSD printing service on port 515. additionally, it
> > provides BSD-style commands to manipulate the printer spool.
> Unfortunately the default is to disable LPR access so i was not able to
> print neither locally neither using samba.

Yes, because some people consider the old BSD spooler as problematic.

Enabling it simply requires answering YES to the debconf question when
installing cupsys-bsd or issuing a "dpkg-reconfigure cupsys-bsd" to
answer YES afterwards.

Anyhow, running both lpr and cups on the same host is generally a bad
idea. If you run cups, but still require traditional BSD printing
services, installing and enabling cupsys-bsd with cups is a much
better alternative.

Should we close this bug?

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Martin-Éric Racine
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