[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#676472: cups: please suggest a compatible inet server (for lpd support)

[Vincent McIntyre]

Package: cups
Version: 1.4.4-7+squeeze1
Severity: minor

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Somehow my system got installed with update-inetd but not inetutils-inetd.

I wanted to turn on lpd support so installed cups-bsd.
update-inetd ran without apparrent errors when I did
  # dpkg-reconfigure cups-bsd
to enable the lpd server, but there was no inetd.conf file to append to
and none was created. No error was indicated.

Once I installed inetutils-inetd and reconfigured cups-bsd again,
things worked as expected.

Possibly this is actually a bug in update-inetd but I'll leave that to
your discretion.

I'm filing this against cups since it provides the daemon binary program,
/usr/lib/cups/daemon/cups-lpd.

Kind regards
Vince

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.5
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii  adduser             3.112+nmu2           add and remove users and groups
ii  bc                  1.06.95-2            The GNU bc arbitrary precision cal
ii  cups-client         1.4.4-7+squeeze1     Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  cups-common         1.4.4-7+squeeze1     Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  cups-ppdc           1.4.4-7+squeeze1     Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  debconf [debconf-2. 1.5.36.1             Debian configuration management sy
ii  ghostscript         8.71~dfsg2-9         The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  libavahi-client3    0.6.27-2+squeeze1    Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3    0.6.27-2+squeeze1    Avahi common library
ii  libc6               2.11.3-3             Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcups2            1.4.4-7+squeeze1     Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupscgi1         1.4.4-7+squeeze1     Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsdriver1      1.4.4-7+squeeze1     Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsimage2       1.4.4-7+squeeze1     Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsmime1        1.4.4-7+squeeze1     Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsppdc1        1.4.4-7+squeeze1     Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.2.24-4+squeeze1    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcc1             1:4.4.5-8            GCC support library
ii  libgnutls26         2.8.6-1+squeeze2     the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2    1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze5 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libijs-0.35         0.35-7               IJS raster image transport protoco
ii  libkrb5-3           1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze5 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2       2.4.23-7.2           OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g            1.1.1-6.1+squeeze1   Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1           1.1.24               library for handling paper charact
ii  libpoppler5         0.12.4-1.2           PDF rendering library
ii  libslp1             1.2.1-7.8            OpenSLP libraries
ii  libstdc++6          4.4.5-8              The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4        2:0.1.12-16          userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base            3.2-23.2squeeze1     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  poppler-utils       0.12.4-1.2           PDF utilitites (based on libpopple
ii  procps              1:3.2.8-9squeeze1    /proc file system utilities
ii  ssl-cert            1.0.28               simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL
ii  ttf-freefont        20090104-7           Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3     compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii  cups-driver-gutenprint  5.2.6-1          printer drivers for CUPS
ii  foomatic-filters        4.0.5-6+squeeze2 OpenPrinting printer support - fil
ii  ghostscript-cups        8.71~dfsg2-9     The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF

Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii  cups-bsd                1.4.4-7+squeeze1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  cups-pdf                2.5.0-16         PDF printer for CUPS
pn  foomatic-db-compressed- <none>           (no description available)
pn  hplip                   <none>           (no description available)
pn  smbclient               <none>           (no description available)
ii  udev                    164-3            /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
pn  xpdf-korean | xpdf-japa <none>           (no description available)

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/cups/cupsd.conf changed [not included]

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