[Pkg-cups-devel] bug 646247 should be reassigned to cups

[Siward de Groot]

Re: bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=646247

Assuming that Filipus Klutiero 's analysis is correct,
 it means that cups causes unrelated software to become nonfunctional,
 which is grave.

When a usb printer is plugged in, it normally results in insmod usblp ,
 and that is how it should be ;
Changelog snippet itself even indicates that there may be other
 spoolers.

Now that this bug on libinklevel is reported,
 we also know that there may be other non-spoolers,
 and if they need to insmod usblp,
 then this "fix" that cups maintainers made
 becomes ineffective. (so they should be notified)

Also i wonder whether that "fix" was ever necessary in the first place,
 because multiple drivers should be able to have (semi-)concurrent
 access to same device,
 at least i read that with parallel port, a driver needs to
 claim (usually exclusive) access, then do it's thing, and then release
 that claim again so other drivers can use that hardware.