Bug#323796: cupsys: Web UI: confuses user with links to remote printservers

[Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>]

Package: cupsys
Version: 1.1.23-12
Severity: normal


When I define a remote IPP printer with Raw type, CUPS web UI replaces
all the links for managing the printer with remote links to the actual
server. This is very confusing and it took some time to understand why
my settings did not work or why access was suddenly denied.

Additionally, there is now no way to modify the printer (for example
change the URL or printer driver) or set the printer as default printer
(via UI). The changes are still possible by copying the remote urls from
the buttons and changing the hostname back by hand.

I suggest adding additional buttons for remote operations but leave the
normal buttons alone. This is probably a possible upstream change.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13-rc6
Locale: LANG=et_EE.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=et_EE.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii  adduser               3.67               Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.57             Debian configuration management sy
ii  gs-esp                8+8.15rc4.dfsg.1-2 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
hi  libc6                 2.3.5-3            GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcupsimage2         1.1.23-12          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsys2            1.1.23-12          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libgnutls12           1.2.6-1            the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libpam0g              0.76-23            Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1             1.1.14-3           Library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1               1.2.1-3            OpenSLP libraries
ii  patch                 2.5.9-2            Apply a diff file to an original
ii  perl-modules          5.8.7-4            Core Perl modules
ii  procps                1:3.2.5-1          /proc file system utilities
ii  xpdf-utils            3.00-8-advanced1   Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii  zlib1g                1:1.2.3-3          compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cupsys recommends:
ii  cupsys-client           1.1.23-12        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  foomatic-filters        3.0.2-20050720-1 linuxprinting.org printer support 
ii  smbclient               3.0.14a-6        a LanManager-like simple client fo

-- debconf information:
  cupsys/raw-print: true
* cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, usb