Bug#877713: cups-browsed: Duplicate printers/print queues in the GTK print dialog

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

Package: cups-browsed
Version: 1.17.8-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream



I am working on an unstable machine: cups-browsed 1.17.8-1 and cups
2.2.4-7. There is a single local queue, pcl. On the network there is
a jessie server (cups 1.7.5-11+deb8u1) advertising two queues and
an IPP printer (an Envy 4500) with AirPrint on.

With cups-browsed started 'lpstat -a' shows

 dotmatrix_desktop accepting requests since Wed 04 Oct 2017 17:50 BST
 ENVY4500 accepting requests since Wed 04 Oct 2017 17:50 BST
 LaserJet_300_desktop accepting requests since Wed 04 Oct 2017 17:50 BST
 pcl accepting requests since Wed 04 Oct 2017 17:50 BST

This is what I would expect. (desktop is the remote print server).

Stopping cups (which stops cups-browsed) and looking at a print dialog
in Firefox or gedit I see

 dotmatrix
 LaserJet-300
 print

Not quite what I expected (I get this on jessie and stretch, too). print
is the Envy 4500. In addition, it hangs at "Getting printer information"
when highlighted and shows "Rejecting jobs" when not selected. Two bugs
in GTK?

Now for the cups-browsed part. I start it and a dialog has

 dotmatrix
 dotmatrix_desktop
 ENVY4500
 LaserJet-300
 LaserJet_300_desktop
 pcl
 print

Is this duplication of GTK discovered printers/print queues supposed to
happen? I would think not; it does not happen on jessie.

Regards,

Brian.