[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#520396: cups: workaround

[Vladislav Kurz]

Package: cups
Version: 1.3.8-1lenny5
Followup-For: Bug #520396

It seems that upstream considers this situation as a feature see:
http://cups.org/str.php?L3181

However it should be explained to them that there are situations where this
might be useful or necessary. In our config, cups worked as an "ipp proxy" allowing
to print on printer hidden behind firewall, where direct access is not possible.

I cannot wait until this bug is fixed, so I had to use cups-bsd to publish the printer
using lpr protocol and now it works fine. 

Regards
Vladislav Kurz

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ.ISO-8859-2 (charmap=ISO-8859-2)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii  adduser         3.110                    add and remove users and groups
ii  cups-common     1.3.8-1lenny5            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  debconf [debcon 1.5.24                   Debian configuration management sy
ii  ghostscript     8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny1    The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  libavahi-compat 0.6.23-3lenny1           Avahi Apple Bonjour compatibility 
ii  libc6           2.7-18                   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcups2        1.3.8-1lenny5            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsimage2   1.3.8-1lenny5            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3     1.2.1-5                  simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgnutls26     2.4.2-6+lenny1           the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libkrb53        1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2   2.4.11-1                 OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g        1.0.1-5+lenny1           Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1       1.1.23+nmu1              library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1         1.2.1-7.5                OpenSLP libraries
ii  lsb-base        3.2-20                   Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  perl-modules    5.10.0-19                Core Perl modules
ii  procps          1:3.2.7-11               /proc file system utilities
ii  ssl-cert        1.0.23                   simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL
ii  xpdf-utils [pop 3.02-1.4+lenny1          Portable Document Format (PDF) sui

Versions of packages cups recommends:
pn  avahi-utils           <none>             (no description available)
ii  cups-client           1.3.8-1lenny5      Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  foomatic-filters      3.0.2-20080211-3.2 OpenPrinting printer support - fil
ii  smbclient             2:3.2.5-4lenny2    a LanManager-like simple client fo

Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii  cups-bsd                1.3.8-1lenny5    Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  cups-driver-gutenprint  5.0.2-4          printer drivers for CUPS
pn  cups-pdf                <none>           (no description available)
ii  foomatic-db             20080211-2+nmu1  OpenPrinting printer support - dat
ii  foomatic-db-engine      3.0.2-20080211-1 OpenPrinting printer support - pro
pn  hplip                   <none>           (no description available)
pn  xpdf-korean | xpdf-japa <none>           (no description available)

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