[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#660825: cups: printer blocked by default even after plugging in the printer cable

[Piotr Kopszak]

Package: cups
Version: 1.5.0-13
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
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   * What led up to the situation?
upgrading to recent version of cups in wheezy
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
in order to use a printer one has to first unblock it and switch on in printers
panel in system settings and give the root password, before printer was
available on plugging in the cable
   * What was the outcome of this action?
Printer did become available
   * What outcome did you expect instead?
I was expecting to have printer available immediately upon plugging in
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (600, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.utf8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu1
ii  bc                     1.06.95-2+b1
ii  cups-client            1.5.0-13
ii  cups-common            1.5.0-13
ii  cups-ppdc              1.5.0-13
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.41
ii  ghostscript            9.04~dfsg-3
ii  libavahi-client3       0.6.30-6
ii  libavahi-common3       0.6.30-6
ii  libc6                  2.13-26
ii  libcups2               1.5.0-13
ii  libcupscgi1            1.5.0-13
ii  libcupsdriver1         1.5.0-13
ii  libcupsimage2          1.5.0-13
ii  libcupsmime1           1.5.0-13
ii  libcupsppdc1           1.5.0-13
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.4.16-1
ii  libgcc1                1:4.6.2-12
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.16-1
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.10+dfsg~beta1-2
ii  libijs-0.35            0.35-8
ii  libkrb5-3              1.10+dfsg~beta1-2
ii  liblcms1               1.19.dfsg-1+b1
ii  libldap-2.4-2          2.4.28-1.1
ii  libpam0g               1.1.3-7
ii  libpaper1              1.1.24+nmu1
ii  libpoppler13           0.16.7-2+b1
ii  libslp1                1.2.1-7.8
ii  libstdc++6             4.6.2-12
ii  libusb-0.1-4           2:0.1.12-20
ii  lsb-base               3.2-28.1
ii  poppler-utils          0.16.7-2+b1
ii  procps                 1:3.2.8-11
ii  ssl-cert               1.0.28
ii  ttf-freefont           20100919-1
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3

Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii  avahi-daemon                                        0.6.30-6
ii  colord                                              0.1.16-2
ii  cups-driver-gutenprint                              5.2.7-5
ii  foomatic-filters                                    4.0.9-1
ii  ghostscript-cups                                    9.04~dfsg-3
ii  printer-driver-gutenprint [cups-driver-gutenprint]  5.2.7-5

Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii  cups-bsd                                   1.5.0-13
ii  cups-pdf                                   <none>
ii  foomatic-db-compressed-ppds [foomatic-db]  20111206-1
ii  hplip                                      3.11.10-1
ii  smbclient                                  2:3.6.3-1
ii  udev                                       175-3

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