Bug#263430: kaddprinterwizard stomps on cupsys defaults

[Stuart Prescott <debian@nanonanonano.net>]

Hi Christopher,

> In the 3.3.2 packages in experimental, I noticed the doc-root change, and 
> patched it, but I didn't notice the lpadmin --> sys change (and _really_ 
> should have, given the age of this bug report). Are these the only two 
> such problems, or should I look for others?

Ummm.... as kaddprinterwizard was pretty much destroying my
configuration with those two changes, I just copied my previous file
back over it and stuck to the www interface, so I haven't really tested
it out.

I would actually suggest that upstream needs to completely rethink the
approach in kaddprinterwizard and the way it rewrites the config file
*entirely* rather than just applying small diffs to the file when
something changes. (OK, this is a more general un*x/linux problem about
how you can make a nice GUI to manage a potentially hand-crafted and
human-readable text file that is being used for the config.)

Perhaps also if the cupsys packages relied less on compiled-in defaults
and more on the config file then there would be less cause for confusion
with kaddprinterwizard? It's a bit of a tough one that I don't have the
packaging experience to even start contemplating.

thanks, all!

Cheers,
Stuart