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Bug#427617: [Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#427617: cupsys-bsd: on upgrade remove lpr package; obscure warning.



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On 6/5/07, Leonardo Boselli <leo@dicea.unifi.it> wrote:
On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, [UTF-8] Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> cupsys-bsd indeed conflicts with lpr, because it provides the same
> service, that is a BSD printing service on port 515. additionally, it
> provides BSD-style commands to manipulate the printer spool.
Unfortunately the default is to disable LPR access so i was not able to
print neither locally neither using samba.

Yes, because some people consider the old BSD spooler as problematic.

Enabling it simply requires answering YES to the debconf question when
installing cupsys-bsd or issuing a "dpkg-reconfigure cupsys-bsd" to
answer YES afterwards.

Anyhow, running both lpr and cups on the same host is generally a bad
idea. If you run cups, but still require traditional BSD printing
services, installing and enabling cupsys-bsd with cups is a much
better alternative.

Should we close this bug?

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Martin-Éric Racine
http://q-funk.iki.fi

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