Bug#910882: cups-browsed: The default for UseCUPSGeneratePPDs should be "Yes"

[Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org>]

Le vendredi, 12 octobre 2018, 18.56:40 h CET Brian Potkin a écrit :
> The CreateIPPPrinterQueues works very nicely with remote print queues.
> A permanent local queue is created which can be printed to using lp or
> the GTK, Qt and Libreoffice dialogs.
> 
> When dealing with a remote IPP printer the situation is different, as
> described in #905850 and #908604:
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=905850
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=908604
> 
> Unlike a print queue, the queue for an IPP printer is temporary and
> disappears within a minute from the 'lpstat -a' output and from a GTK
> dialog (but not from Qt and Libreoffice dialogs). Very confusing for
> a user, I would have thought. CreateIPPPrinterQueues is not sufficient
> for a permanent queue to be created.
> 
> The temporary nature of a printer queue is not documented and neither
> is the solution, setting UseCUPSGeneratedPPDs to "No".

My understanding is that the current default for UseCUPSGeneratedPPDs is
set to Yes; 

	https://sources.debian.org/src/cups-filters/1.21.3-3/utils/cups-browsed.c/#L391
	https://sources.debian.org/src/cups-filters/1.21.3-3/utils/cups-browsed.conf.in/#L347

Are you asking to swap it to be "No"?

@Till: would this make sense upstream?

Cheers,
    OdyX