[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#429575: cupsys fails when /etc/cupsd/ppd is a broken symlink

[Oliver M. Rother]

Package: cupsys
Version: 1.2.7-4
Severity: normal


cuspsy fails with

cupsd: Unable to read configuration file
'/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting!

when /etc/cups/ppd is a broken symlink - which is stupid, 
because /etc/cups/cupsd.conf is fine.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (1001, 'stable'), (200, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)

Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.102           Add and remove users and groups
ii  cupsys-common            1.2.7-4         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.11          Debian configuration management sy
ii  gs-esp                   8.15.3.dfsg.1-1 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii  libc6                    2.3.6.ds1-13    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcupsimage2            1.2.7-4         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsys2               1.2.7-4         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3              1.0.2-1         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgnutls13              1.4.4-3         the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libldap2                 2.1.30-13.3     OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g                 0.79-4          Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1                1.1.21          Library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1                  1.2.1-6.2       OpenSLP libraries
ii  lsb-base                 3.1-23.1        Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  patch                    2.5.9-4         Apply a diff file to an original
ii  perl-modules             5.8.8-7         Core Perl modules
ii  procps                   1:3.2.7-3       /proc file system utilities
ii  xpdf-utils [poppler-util 3.01-9          Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.3-13      compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cupsys recommends:
ii  cupsys-client         1.2.7-4            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  foomatic-filters      3.0.2-20061031-1.2 linuxprinting.org printer support 
ii  smbclient             3.0.24-6etch4      a LanManager-like simple client fo

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