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Bug#343439: Unable to get eggcups working



eggcups doesn't seem to want to work as described - the default printer
selection dialog is fine (but is just a duplicate of existing
functionality in Desktop|Administration|Printers) but the main
function, the tray icon, does not work correctly. I've tested with two
different systems (amd64 and powerpc) using a network printer that
works fine with CUPS. Even when eggcups is started as root (when it
claims to have correctly associated with dbus), the icon never shows
any jobs in the queue.

If anyone else wants to try, the Build-Depends (checked with pbuilder)
are - using cdbs - :

cdbs, debhelper (>= 5), autotools-dev, libglib2.0-dev, libpango1.0-dev,
libgtk2.0-dev, libgconf2-dev, libglade2-dev, libgnomeui-dev, libhal-dev,
libgnome-keyring-dev, libgnomecups1.0-dev, libxss-dev,
libxml-parser-perl, libdbus-glib-1-dev

Three patches were required. (attached).

To avoid rpath errors, the autotools need to be rerun: aclocal and
autoconf.

Upstream does not seem to have been active since 2004.

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Neil Williams
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