Bug#710735: cups: ambiguous ref to /etc/cups/lpoptions

[Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@olin.edu>]

Package: cups
Version: 1.5.3-5
Severity: normal

[Same as closed Bug#463752 on former cupsys-client package]

I misinterpreted this statement in the manpage for lpoptions:

       When run by the root user, lpoptions gets and sets default options  and
       instances for all users in the /etc/cups/lpoptions file.

I thought that, if root uses lpoptions, those options apply to the user
ids listed in /etc/cups/lpoptions.  A few other packages that have that
kind of behavior, although I admit that it's not common.

When I looked at the lpoptions file itself, I realized what the
manpage meant.  To clarify, perhaps the man page should read:

       When run by the root user, lpoptions gets and sets default
       options and instances for all users, storing the data in the
       /etc/cups/lpoptions file.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.8-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
ii  bc                     1.06.95-6
ii  cups-client            1.5.3-5
ii  cups-common            1.5.3-5
ii  cups-filters           1.0.18-2.1
ii  cups-ppdc              1.5.3-5
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.50
ii  dpkg                   1.16.10
ii  ghostscript            9.05~dfsg-6.3
ii  libavahi-client3       0.6.31-2
ii  libavahi-common3       0.6.31-2
ii  libc-bin               2.17-3
ii  libc6                  2.17-3
ii  libcups2               1.5.3-5
ii  libcupscgi1            1.5.3-5
ii  libcupsimage2          1.5.3-5
ii  libcupsmime1           1.5.3-5
ii  libcupsppdc1           1.5.3-5
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.6.10-1
ii  libgcc1                1:4.8.0-7
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.20-6
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.10.1+dfsg-5
ii  libkrb5-3              1.10.1+dfsg-5
ii  libldap-2.4-2          2.4.31-1+nmu2
ii  libpam0g               1.1.3-9
ii  libpaper1              1.1.24+nmu2
ii  libslp1                1.2.1-9
ii  libstdc++6             4.8.0-7
ii  libusb-1.0-0           2:1.0.15-1
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian11
ii  poppler-utils          0.18.4-6
ii  procps                 1:3.3.4-2
ii  ssl-cert               1.0.32

Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii  avahi-daemon               0.6.31-2
ii  colord                     0.1.21-4
ii  foomatic-filters           4.0.17-1
ii  ghostscript-cups           9.05~dfsg-6.3
ii  printer-driver-gutenprint  5.2.9-1

Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii  cups-bsd               1.5.3-5
ii  cups-pdf               2.6.1-9
ii  foomatic-db            20130517-1
ii  hplip                  3.13.4-1
ii  printer-driver-hpcups  3.13.4-1
ii  smbclient              2:3.6.15-1
ii  udev                   175-7.2

-- debconf information:
  cupsys/raw-print: true
  cupsys/backend: ipp, ipp14, lpd, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd