Bug#616174: lprng: Why the war between CUPS and lpr*? I hate having to re-install lpr*.

["s. keeling" <keeling@nucleus.com>]

Package: lprng
Version: 3.8.B-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Hi.  I'm actually reporting for my sandbox machine which runs aptosid,
so sid downstream (formerly Sidux).  It's up to date.  I've recently
run into updates that have successively blown away about four manual
installs of lprng.  "This's maddening!  Why doesn't it work today,
dammit?!?"  Ah, CUPS updates blew away lpr*.  !@#$

I would really appreciate it if you would institute an
/etc/default/print which would specify "this system's" preferred
printing system, and serve as a "Dammit! don't fsck with it!" for all
other programs.  PLEASE!!!

   /etc/default/print:

        # We prefer this daemon on this box!  Please choose, and damn
        # the installer/packager that fscks with this.  Possible
        # values are cups, lpr, lprng, and if empty, CUPS, and damn you to
        # ...
        #
        DAEMON=lprng

Please?  This shit's been going on for too damned long.  I've got my
printer's .ppd, and a five or so line long printcap.  I don't want or need
cups, so why does it continue to force itself upon my machines,
blowing away lprng?!?  Grr.  RAPE!

This should be easy.  Fwd: this to debian.devel.mentors; they should
see this needs doing.  Damnit.  :-)  Bon chance.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.8
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-bpo.5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages lprng depends on:
ii  debconf [debcon 1.5.24                   Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6           2.7-18lenny7             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomerr2      1.41.3-1                 common error description library
ii  libkrb53        1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny6 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8     0.9.8g-15+lenny11        SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base        3.2-20                   Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

lprng recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lprng suggests:
pn  lprng-doc                     <none>     (no description available)
ii  magicfilter                   1.2-60     automatic printer filter

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