Bug#799259: cups-filters: Messy dependencies between cups-filters and foomatic-filters...
Mandi! Till Kamppeter
In chel di` si favelave...
Only two note.
> 2. beh with standard permissions only works with backends with
> standard permissions. root-only backends (with executable bit only
> for root) only work through beh if one assigns the same root-only
> permissions to beh, making also normal backends used through beh
> running as root. Any suggestions for handling this permission
> problem are welcome.
This ''permission mess'' on cups backend is another story, and another
bug:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702227
really, i've not understood why there's permission restriction, and how
circumvent it.
I admit that using ''chained backend'' is not a common setup, but cups
support it, while seems that breaks their ''security model''.
It is at least not clear. Probably is an upstream thing, but...
> As a quick solution on the side of the distribution I would split
> the binary packages of foomatic-filters to have one containing
> foomatic-rip (for the rare non-CUPS printing system users) and one
> containing beh (for the rare cups+beh users).
Consider also to simply add a row on README.Debian or something like
that: 'beh' is a very simply perl script, with no exotic perl deps, so
probably some row that explain how to download and install perl will
suffices, at least for now.
Thanks.
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