[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#698141: cups-browsed: Package description does not explain where to install the package

Axel Beckert abe at debian.org
Mon Jan 14 11:31:37 UTC 2013


Package: cups-browsed
Severity: minor
Version: 1.0.28-1

Dear CUPS Maintainers,

I guess that many people are happy about the existence of this package,
so am I. :-)

But from the long description it is unclear to me and my coworkers at
which point in the common CUPS < 1.6 vs CUPS > 1.6 scenarios this
package can or should be installed:

1) On the CUPS >= 1.6 server so that CUPS < 1.6 clients can browse his
   printer list?

2) On the CUPS >= 1.6 client so that it can browse the printer list of
   CUPS < 1.6 printer servers?

3) On the CUPS < 1.6 server so that CUPS >= 1.6 clients can browse his
   printer list?

4) On the CUPS < 1.6 client so that it can browse the printer list of
   CUPS >= 1.6 printer servers?

Or even a completely different setup like some proxy machine which
queries the >= 1.6 server and broadcasts its printers to < 1.6 clients?

So please update the long descrption of that package accordingly to make
clear where the package should be installed and where not.

TIA!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (900, 'testing'), (600, 'stable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.7-trunk-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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