Bug#704238: Need to document the CUPS client's new server-version option

2013-06-23 Thread Daniel Richard G.
On Sat, 2013 Jun 22 4:31+0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > At my lab, the admins tell us the hostname of the print server, and > sometimes the print names, that's all. Considering that "/version=1.1" is not supported on older CUPS clients, admins [who know about the directive] could well be disincl

Bug#704238: Need to document the CUPS client's new server-version option

2013-06-21 Thread Daniel Richard G.
On Fri, 2013 Jun 21 15:44-0400, Michael Sweet wrote: > > My experience with large sites has been the opposite - most places > I've worked with have departmental print servers with manually-added > queues (either raw queues or the OS X-style local queue/PPD forwarding > to the server). They typical

Bug#704238: Need to document the CUPS client's new server-version option

2013-06-21 Thread Daniel Richard G.
On Fri, 2013 Jun 21 9:29-0400, Michael Sweet wrote: > > Well, before we go off and spend extra engineering time on this, how > widespread is the use of client.conf in the Linux world? On OS X it > was pretty-much non-existent (less than 1% of users, based on bug > reports) and since 10.8 *is* non-

Bug#704238: Need to document the CUPS client's new server-version option

2013-06-20 Thread Daniel Richard G.
On Thu, 2013 Jun 20 11:39-0400, Michael Sweet wrote: > > In both cases the server is returning a "bad request" error instead of > "version not supported". We could (and probably should) change lpq to > report the real error, but that will just yield: > > lpq: Bad Request > > And since "Bad Req

Bug#695601: Bug #695601

2013-03-29 Thread Daniel Richard G.
I've noticed a behavior quite similar to this, on Ubuntu, as a result of the below-linked bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1069671 In a nutshell: Running the CUPS 1.6.1 client locally, talking to a remote CUPS 1.5.x (or older) server. The client cannot communicate with the server, due to

Bug#704238: Need to document the CUPS client's new server-version option

2013-03-29 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Package: cups-client Version: 1.6.2-3 The CUPS client recently gained new configuration logic to allow the IPP version of a CUPS server to be specified, whether on the command line (-h option), in the CUPS_SERVER environment variable, or in the /etc/cups/client.conf config file. Some examples of t