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Bug#921252: marked as done (cups-browsed: Please consider "All" as the default for CreateIPPPrinterQueues)

Your message dated Fri, 31 Jan 2020 16:49:55 +0000
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and subject line Bug#921252: fixed in cups-filters 1.27.0-2
has caused the Debian Bug report #921252,
regarding cups-browsed: Please consider "All" as the default for CreateIPPPrinterQueues
to be marked as done.

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Package: cups-browsed
Version: 1.21.6-3
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream



It is more than likely that cups-browsed would be found on most
Debian, Ubuntu and Mint distributions because it is recommended
by cups-daemon. This report is made in that context.

In /usr/share/doc/cups-browsed/changelog.gz we see

 CHANGES IN V1.14.0

  [...]
  cups-browsed: Added new setting "LocalOnly" for the
  CreateIPPPrinterQueues in cups-browsed.conf. With this new
  setting (which is the default from now on) only for local
  printers made available as IPP printers (like IPP-over-USB
  printers with ippusbxd) queues are auto-created. With this
  we can follow the common standard of distributions where USB
  printers are automatically set up and network printers not.

I would like to examine what "...automatically set up,,," means. The
dialogs of LibreOffice, Qt and GTK applications enumerate all local
and network printers automatically by default and display them. They
can be printed to, so, to my mind, they have been "set-up". In that
regard, this is the "common standard of distributions".

My suggestion is that the default for CreateIPPPrinterQueues should
be "All". This fits the reality of how the applications (including
lpstat -e) work.

Also, suppose we have

CreateIPPPrinterQueues LocalOnly

as the only uncommented option in cups-browsed.conf; cups-browsed will
not set up a local queue for a network printer. But, in the case of
Qt apps and LibreOffice, a CUPS temporary queue will become available
instead. In other words, the option LocalOnly does not affect network
set up in those applications and its only effect is to transfer the
management of the printers from cups-browsed to elsewhere.

There is also a practical aspect: the Qt and GTK dialogs have unfixed
bugs (#911702, #911844, #916267 and #921113) which affect printing to
a networked IPP printer. With "CreateIPPPrinterQueuesy All", putting
the queue management in the hands of cups-browsed bypasses these
issues.

Another practical aspect: many users with a modern printer do not
realise that printing is, in principle, instantly available when an
IPP printer is put on the network and cups-browsed is being used (or
without it, for that matter). Few read the cups-browsed manual. The
result is often an immediate excursion into how to install drivers
(free or non-free) when all that is required is a change to a conf
file.

Regards,

Brian.

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Source: cups-filters
Source-Version: 1.27.0-2

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
cups-filters, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 921252@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Didier Raboud <odyx@debian.org> (supplier of updated cups-filters package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 17:17:53 +0100
Source: cups-filters
Architecture: source
Version: 1.27.0-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Printing Team <debian-printing@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Didier Raboud <odyx@debian.org>
Closes: 921252
Changes:
 cups-filters (1.27.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Backport upstream change:
     [ Till Kamppeter ]
     - cups-browsed: Switched default for "CreateIPPPrinterQueues" to "All"
       (Closes: #921252)
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