On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > Don't you think this should be in the BTS so that it is not forgotten? > I mean we should not lose the content of that mail - it takes time to > write that down... Well, I did CC: the cupsys maintainer. I'll give him sometime, and if nothing is done (i.e.: no answer or no new cupsys 1.1 package :^P ) I'll file it to the BTS. > > That done, I'm one of those who would gladly drop lprng for cups. I think > > the quality increase of the packaging is well worth the trouble of > > implementing it. > > There is still a problem with cups. When I tried it I got it to work > locally but I was unable to print remotely. I gave up after an hour > and installed lprng instead... CUPS 1.0 needs an external daemon to talk to lpd remote printers, I think. CUPS 1.1 should do both incoming and outgoing LPD requests as far as I can tell from the source. > Probably I did something wrong but I think more people will know how > to configure lprng than cups... Yes, at least for now. But cups might be a good candidate to be the standard Debian print system for Woody+1, as long as we get it to shape now so as to allow for enough testing. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
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