A few years back, Samba upstream began using CUPS as the default printing system whenever CUPS support was enabled. At the time, cupsys was Priority: optional, and lpr as the standard Unix printing interface was Priority: standard (or higher), so I patched the Samba packages in Debian to default to BSD printing instead of CUPS.
Today the circumstances have changed. It seems that lpr was demoted to optional sometime before the etch release, putting it on equal footing with cupsys in that regard, and CUPS itself has IME improved markedly since the time that decision was made (I'm personally still not fond of the implementation, but at least it does a better job of talking to printers for me :). So I have two questions: - Is there any remaining reason why the Samba maintainers shouldn't drop this patch, switching to CUPS as the default print system? - Should we consider raising the priority of cupsys to standard, to take the place of lpr as an available-by-default printing system on stock installs? Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
