Bug#717377: libcups2: A correction for README.Debian
Package: libcups2
Version: 1.5.3-5
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
When describing printer sharing under the heading 'Advertising your
local queues' README.Debian claims:
If you do not want it to do so you have to stop avahi-daemon
running.
The author of this statement is under a misapprehension and probably
confused printer discovery with printer sharing. This might have been
because he has been exposed to CUPS browsing for too long and has some
difficulty in adjusting to the new DNS-SD world.
A diff is attached. It expands a little on printer sharing (but not
unnecessarily, I hope).
Regards,
Brian.
--- README.Debian 2013-07-19 21:41:46.000000000 +0100
+++ README.Debian_v2 2013-07-19 23:00:56.000000000 +0100
@@ -104,20 +104,26 @@
Advertising your local queues
=============================
-Your standard cups install automatically uses the Bonjour protocol to
-advertise any print queues you choose to share. If you do not want it to
-do so you have to stop avahi-daemon running. But, remember, if you go
-down that path you will no longer be able to access the Bonjour shared
-queues of other servers.
+Your cups install (standard or not) automatically uses only the Bonjour
+protocol to advertise any print queues you choose to share. Sharing
+print queues may be done either by
-Ok, you keep avahi-daemon running and let it do its job. Everything is now
-alright? Not quite! A 1.6.x machine listening to your broadcasts will be
-capable of processing them but a 1.5.x (or older) machine will not be.
-This is because it usually does not have cups-browsed available to install
-so can only process CUPS/IPP protocol broadcasts. But, once again,
-cups-browsed on your machine can help your cups daemon out. Please read
-its documentation.
+ * setting 'Browsing' to 'On' or 'Off' in /etc/cups/cusd.conf
+or
+ * Using the Administration section of the web interface
+Having done this, finer control over individual print queues can be
+achieved in /etc/cups/printers.conf with 'Shared' as 'On' or 'Off' for
+chosen printers. Alternatively, a print queue can be modified from the
+Printers section of the web interface.
+
+Ok, you have chosen to share; everything is now alright? Not quite! A
+1.6.x machine listening to your Bonjour broadcasts will be capable of
+processing them with the aid of cups-browsed but a 1.5.x (or older)
+machine will not be. This is because it usually does not have
+cups-browsed available to install so can only process CUPS/IPP protocol
+broadcasts. But, once again, cups-browsed on your machine can help your
+cups daemon out. Please read its documentation.
Printing without using a local cups daemon
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