Bug#333746: cupsys: CUPSYS needs an interface for easy reinstall of updated PPDs
Package: cupsys
Version: 1.1.23-12
Severity: important
CUPS lacks a proper interface for automated update of PPDs. This causes
updates in hpijs that require up-to-date hplip-ppds/foomatic-filters-ppds
PPDs to silently break printing on people's systems, often in very annoying
ways.
Ideally, CUPS should reload any PPDs that have been modified on disk, or
at the very least allow us to command it to do so programatically.
The current way to unbreak printing due to an outdated PPD requires manual
intervention from the printing administrator, which needs to "Modify" the
printer in a CUPS administrative interface to force a PPD reload. This is
not only very sub-par and user unfriendly, it is also quite often very
annoying (CUPS does *NOT* pre-fill the forms with all the current settings,
which is a bug on its own).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13.4-debian1+libata+bluesmoke+imq+lm85
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.ISO-8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii adduser 3.67.2 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf [debconf-2. 1.4.58 Debian configuration management sy
ii gs-esp 8+8.15rc4.dfsg.1-2.1 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii libc6 2.3.5-6 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 0.79-3 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 5.8.7-5 Core Perl modules
ii procps 1:3.2.5-1 /proc file system utilities
ii xpdf-utils 3.01-2 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-4 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
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