Bug#910882: cups-browsed: The default for UseCUPSGeneratePPDs should be "Yes"
On Sun 25 Nov 2018 at 13:28:44 +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> Le vendredi, 12 octobre 2018, 18.56:40 h CET Brian Potkin a écrit :
> > The CreateIPPPrinterQueues works very nicely with remote print queues.
> > A permanent local queue is created which can be printed to using lp or
> > the GTK, Qt and Libreoffice dialogs.
> >
> > When dealing with a remote IPP printer the situation is different, as
> > described in #905850 and #908604:
> >
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=905850
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=908604
> >
> > Unlike a print queue, the queue for an IPP printer is temporary and
> > disappears within a minute from the 'lpstat -a' output and from a GTK
> > dialog (but not from Qt and Libreoffice dialogs). Very confusing for
> > a user, I would have thought. CreateIPPPrinterQueues is not sufficient
> > for a permanent queue to be created.
> >
> > The temporary nature of a printer queue is not documented and neither
> > is the solution, setting UseCUPSGeneratedPPDs to "No".
>
> My understanding is that the current default for UseCUPSGeneratedPPDs is
> set to Yes;
>
> https://sources.debian.org/src/cups-filters/1.21.3-3/utils/cups-browsed.c/#L391
> https://sources.debian.org/src/cups-filters/1.21.3-3/utils/cups-browsed.conf.in/#L347
>
> Are you asking to swap it to be "No"?
>
> @Till: would this make sense upstream?
I cannot answer for Till, but can point to
https://wiki.debian.org/DriverlessPrinting#The_CUPS_PPD_Generator
https://wiki.debian.org/DriverlessPrinting#The_cups-filters_PPD_Generator
https://github.com/zdohnal/system-config-printer/issues/125
"UseCUPSGeneratedPPDs No" as a workaround for another issue removes a
user's choice of PPD generator.
Regards,
Brian.
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