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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: cups: ambiguous ref to /etc/cups/lpoptions
- From: Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@olin.edu>
- Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 16:06:41 -0400
- Message-id: <87ip1xbnou.fsf@approx.mit.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
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