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Bug#676472: cups: please suggest a compatible inet server (for lpd support)



Control: tags -1 +wontfix
Control: severity -1 wishlist

Hi there Vincent,

Le jeudi, 7 juin 2012, 17.47:59 h CEST Vincent McIntyre a écrit :
> Somehow my system got installed with update-inetd but not inetutils-inetd.
> 
> I wanted to turn on lpd support so installed cups-bsd.
> update-inetd ran without apparrent errors when I did
>   # dpkg-reconfigure cups-bsd
> to enable the lpd server, but there was no inetd.conf file to append to
> and none was created. No error was indicated.
> 
> Once I installed inetutils-inetd and reconfigured cups-bsd again,
> things worked as expected.
> 
> Possibly this is actually a bug in update-inetd but I'll leave that to
> your discretion.

As of 2017, I tend to think that lpd support should disappear for Buster. Iff 
we'd want to keep it, having cups-bsd get a 
	Suggests: inetutils-inetd | inet-superserver, update-inetd
_could_ make sense.

I'm not going to investigate more than that; so if someone wants that in 
2017's CUPS, please answer to this bug by saying so and confirming the above 
strategy makes sense.

Cheers,
    OdyX

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