[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#616433: cups: please create /etc/ppd and use it

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

Package: cups
Version: 1.4.4-7
Severity: wishlist

http://wiki.debian.org/PpdFileStructureSpecification says:

 User-provided and custom PPDs should be put into /etc/ppd/. Printer
 queue setup tools should be altered to look for user-provided and
 custom PPDs under this directory and should also copy PPDs to this
 directory when a function like "Provide a PPD file..." is
 used. Therefore the /etc/ppd/ directory needs to be group-writable by
 user lpadmin, so that printer admins can install PPDs. Each package
 that provides a printer spooler (cupsys, lpr and lprng) should check
 if the /etc/ppd/ directory exists when installed, if not create it
 and apply the necessary permissions.

But cups (in squeeze) does not do that.

-- 
Lionel