Bug#843114: cups-filters: cups changes shared printers with underscores (_) in their names to dashes (-)
On Thu 03 Nov 2016 at 16:14:18 -0700, Alex Schumann wrote:
> Package: cups-filters
> Version: 1.0.61-5+deb8u3
> Severity: important
> Tags: newcomer
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> Printers shared from other cups systems with _ in their names appear with the name changed so all underscores '_' become dashes '-'.
>
> There is a similar bug-report in rhel7 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1230862) solved by an update.
> > Our EL7 clients are using cups-browsed to discover printers shared
> > from our central EL7 cups server. Most of our queues have underscores
> > in their names, and for some reason cups-browsed is changing the
> > underscores to dashes. This breaks the queues for our EL7 clients.
>
> I think this same fix should be applied to jessie. This causes serious breakage when printer names are saved
> in work processes or applications, or when users move between systems. (wheezy does not have the bug)
>
> * What led up to the situation?
>
> Upgraded a server from wheezy to jessie. Printing in our in-house application stopped working.
> Investigation found that the printers in jessie all had the wrong name (ZZ2-office-2844) instead of correct name (ZZ2_office_2844)
CHANGES IN V1.0.62
- cups-browsed: Allow underscore characters in print queue names.
Thanks to Tim Waugh from Red Hat for the bug report (Bug
#1241).
cups-filters and cups-filters-core-drivers (1.0.62-1) from
http://snapshot.debian.org/ will install on Jessie. Tested.
How does that suit?
Regards,
Brian.
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