[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#661601: cups: Ship cupsd.conf as it would be created automatically by cups

[Sam Morris]

Package: cups
Version: 1.5.2-5
Severity: wishlist

cups currently ships cupsd.conf as a conffile with hand-written
contents. As soon as cups is started, however, it replaces this file
with its own version, which removes some options that are set to their
default values, removes the comments, changes the white space and so on.
The result is that it's no longer useful to perform a diff between
the shipped cupsd.conf and the current one, making conffile prompts much
less useful than they would otherwise be.

Please ship a copy of cupsd.conf as written out by a default
installation of cups to work around this problem.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (530, 'testing'), (520, 'unstable'), (510, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.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            1.5.2-5
ii  cups-common            1.5.2-5
ii  cups-filters           1.0.2-1
ii  cups-ppdc              1.5.0-13
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.41
ii  dpkg                   1.16.1.2
ii  ghostscript            9.05~dfsg-2
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  libcupsimage2          1.5.0-13
ii  libcupsmime1           1.5.0-13
ii  libcupsppdc1           1.5.0-13
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.4.18-1
ii  libgcc1                1:4.6.2-12
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.16-1
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.10+dfsg~beta1-2
ii  libkrb5-3              1.10+dfsg~beta1-2
ii  libldap-2.4-2          2.4.28-1.1
ii  libpam0g               1.1.3-7
ii  libpaper1              1.1.24+nmu1
ii  libslp1                1.2.1-9
ii  libstdc++6             4.6.2-12
ii  libusb-1.0-0           2:1.0.9~rc3-3
ii  lsb-base               3.2-28.1
ii  poppler-utils          0.16.7-3
ii  procps                 1:3.2.8-11
ii  ssl-cert               1.0.28

Versions of packages cups recommends:
pn  avahi-daemon            0.6.30-6
pn  colord                  0.1.16-2
pn  cups-driver-gutenprint  <none>
pn  foomatic-filters        <none>
pn  ghostscript-cups        <none>

Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii  cups-bsd                                   1.5.2-5
ii  cups-pdf                                   <none>
ii  foomatic-db-compressed-ppds | foomatic-db  <none>
ii  hplip                                      <none>
ii  smbclient                                  2:3.6.3-1
ii  udev                                       175-3.1

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/cups/cupsd.conf [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/cups/cupsd.conf'

-- debconf information excluded