Package: cups Version: 1.4.5-3 Severity: wishlist By default, cups has BrowseRemoteProtocols empty, which means cups will not show remote printers automatically. Please consider changing this in the default cupsd.conf to "BrowseRemoteProtocols CUPS dnssd", which will automatically discover printers shared on the network and make them available. This improves the Just Works factor of CUPS when you already have a print server, or when connecting to a network that already has a print server. (For instance, it makes printing to the printers at my university Just Work when I've connected to that network.)
As far as I know, this shouldn't cause any problems. However, if known issues exist with this setting that require keeping the current default, then please consider documenting those issues somewhere, such as in a comment next to the browse settings in the default configuration file. Thanks, Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages cups depends on: ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups ii bc 1.06.95-2 The GNU bc arbitrary precision cal ii cups-client 1.4.5-3 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii cups-common 1.4.5-3 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii cups-ppdc 1.4.5-3 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.38 Debian configuration management sy ii ghostscript 9.01~dfsg-1 interpreter for the PostScript lan ii libavahi-client3 0.6.28-3 Avahi client library ii libavahi-common3 0.6.28-3 Avahi common library ii libc6 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcups2 1.4.5-3 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libcupscgi1 1.4.5-3 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libcupsdriver1 1.4.5-3 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libcupsimage2 1.4.5-3 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libcupsmime1 1.4.5-3 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libcupsppdc1 1.4.5-3 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libdbus-1-3 1.4.1-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-10 GCC support library ii libgnutls26 2.10.4-2 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.8.3+dfsg-4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k ii libijs-0.35 0.35-7 IJS raster image transport protoco ii libkrb5-3 1.8.3+dfsg-4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii liblcms1 1.18.dfsg-1.2+b3 Color management library ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.23-7 OpenLDAP libraries ii libpam0g 1.1.1-6.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpaper1 1.1.24 library for handling paper charact ii libpoppler5 0.12.4-1.2 PDF rendering library ii libslp1 1.2.1-7.8 OpenSLP libraries ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-10 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-17 userspace USB programming library ii lsb-base 3.2-27 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii poppler-utils 0.12.4-1.2 PDF utilitites (based on libpopple ii procps 1:3.2.8-10 /proc file system utilities ii ssl-cert 1.0.28 simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL ii ttf-freefont 20100919-1 Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime Versions of packages cups recommends: ii avahi-daemon 0.6.28-3 Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon pn cups-driver-gutenprint <none> (no description available) ii foomatic-filters 4.0.6-1 OpenPrinting printer support - fil ii ghostscript-cups 9.01~dfsg-1 interpreter for the PostScript lan Versions of packages cups suggests: ii cups-bsd 1.4.5-3 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - pn cups-pdf <none> (no description available) ii foomatic-db-compressed-ppds [ 20110209-1 OpenPrinting printer support - Com ii hplip 3.10.6-2 HP Linux Printing and Imaging Syst pn smbclient <none> (no description available) ii udev 166-1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo -- Configuration Files: /etc/cups/cupsd.conf changed [not included] -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
