Bug#372506: cupsys: Upgrade/dpkg issues
Package: cupsys
Version: 1.2.1-2
Severity: normal
I just upgraded to 1.2 and ran dpkg-reconfigure. There were a number
of points that were unclear to me. Most of these are documentation
issues, but the most significant, whether dpkg-reconfigure is fully
effective, may involve some code. Or I could just be misunderstanding
things.
I'll start with the easy stuff:
In NEWS.Debian
1. * 'enable' / 'disable' commands are removed. Use 'cupsenable' /
'cupsdisable'.
Since this came immediately after "old configuration won't work in
some cases." I thought these were configuration commands (e.g.,
enablefoo). The only ones I found in cupsd.conf were Enable-Printer
and Disable-Printer. After looking at the docs, I finally realized
that cupsenable and cupsdisable are command line tools (right?). So
perhaps say
* The command-line tools 'cupsenable' and 'cupsdisable' have replaced
'enable' and 'disable'.
2. "Port/Listen and Browsing parameters are splitted from newer"
should be "are split", if you keep this. I think the intended meaning
is more like this:
dpkg-reconfigure cupsys now controls the Port/Listen and Browsing
parameters by writing the files /etc/cups/cups.d/ports.conf
and /etc/cups/cups.d/browsing.conf respectively. However, this will
have no effect unless you modify /etc/cups/cupsd.conf to include
those files:
Include /etc/cups/cups.d/ports.conf
Include /etc/cups/cups.d/browse.conf
You should also comment out any settings of those
parameters in cupsd.conf. dpkg-reconfigure will use your current
settings [if they are not commented out?] as default values.
dpkg-reconfigure behavior:
3. dpkg-reconfigure asked me a bunch of questions when it ran (e.g.,
what were my printer communication backends). However, it did not
update cupsd.conf or any other file as far as I can tell (excepting
ports.conf and browse.conf). Did the changes actually take effect?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (40, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii adduser 3.87 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.1 Debian configuration management sy
ii gs-esp 8.15.1.dfsg.1-2 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii libacl1 2.2.37-1 Access control list shared library
ii libc6 2.3.6-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcupsimage2 1.2.1-2 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libcupsys2 1.2.1-2 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libdbus-1-2 0.61-6 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgnutls13 1.3.5-1.1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libldap2 2.1.30-13 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libpam0g 0.79-3.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpaper1 1.1.17 Library for handling paper charact
ii libslp1 1.2.1-5 OpenSLP libraries
ii lsb-base 3.1-8 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii patch 2.5.9-4 Apply a diff file to an original
ii perl-modules 5.8.8-4 Core Perl modules
ii procps 1:3.2.6-2.2 /proc file system utilities
ii xpdf-utils [poppler-util 3.01-8 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-11 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages cupsys recommends:
ii cupsys-client 1.2.1-2 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii foomatic-filters 3.0.2-20060318-2 linuxprinting.org printer support
pn smbclient <none> (no description available)
-- debconf information:
* cupsys/raw-print: true
* cupsys/ports: 631 /var/run/cups/cups.sock
* cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, socket, usb
cupsys/portserror:
* cupsys/browse: true
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