Bug#873606: cups: 2.2.4 stopped being able to interact with our cups server

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

On Tue 29 Aug 2017 at 14:52:58 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:

> Package: cups
> Version: 2.2.4-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Since the upgrade to 2.2.4-1 (more precisely, it is the upgrade of
> libcups2 which breaks things), I'm not able to print any more:
> 
> [with 2.2.3-2]
> $ lpq
> print2me is ready
> no entries
> 
> [with 2.2.4-1]
> $ lpq
> lpq: Error - PRINTER environment variable names non-existent destination "print2me".
> $ lpr
> /usr/bin/lpr: Error - scheduler not responding.
> $ lp
> lp: Error - scheduler not responding.
> 
> but oddly enough:
> $ lpstat -a
> print2me accepting requests since mar. 29 août 2017 14:13:48 CEST
> 
> 
> Anyway, I had to downgrade to 2.2.3-2 to get printing back working.

Samuel and Julian, please take a look at #877888 and let us know if it
fixes things.

Regards,

Brian.