Bug#908500: marked as done (cups-browsed: Please consider making cups-browsed a Suggests:)

[Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org>]

Control: reopen -1
Control: reassign -1 cups-daemon 2.2.8-5
Control: retitle -1 cups-daemon: Please consider making cups-browsed a Suggests
Control: affects -1 +cups-browsed

Le dimanche, 21 octobre 2018, 21.21:13 h CEST Debian BTS a écrit :
> On Mon 10 Sep 2018 at 15:16:44 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:
> > Package: cups-browsed
> > Version: 1.21.2-1
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> > 
> > With the introduction of cups 1.6.x the situation in respect to printing
> > to remote print queues and printers would have been dire without the
> > creation of cups-browsed. However, cups 2.2.4 and later has the ability
> > (CUPS Issue #4993) to enumerate queues and printers in print dialogs and
> > to auto-create a temporary print queue. This is used by applications
> > having the Qt dialog and printing from the command line, although the
> > GTK dialog still does its own thing.
> > 
> > cups-browsed is installed by default because cups-daemon (quite rightly)
> > recommends it. With the changed situation in CUPS and applications it
> > would appear that cups-browsed has less relevance with regard to printer
> > and print queue discovery and management. The Recommends field lists
> > packages that would be found with the cups package because there is a
> > strong dependency between it and cups-browsed. cups-browsed would still
> > enhance cups if changed to a Suggests:.
> > 
> > The installation of cups-browsed almost as a matter of course on many
> > buster systems also masks bugs in CUPS and applications, as it will take
> > over the management of queues/printers. A small example is CUPS Issue
> > #5045. Another example is with okular. For me, it will not print to a
> > temporary queue; with a local cups-browsed queue it will. This would
> > probably pass unnoticed as things stand now.
> 
> The resounding silence is an indication of the quality of this report.
> It was probably a naff idea. Closing.

I disagree. Although I haven't interacted on the bug, your report sparkled
some thoughts, and I had its proper handling on my "to spend some energy on
later" list. In the meantime, cups-filters started to FTBFS in unstable; a
fix was urgent and I spent the minimal amount of energy to solve that issue.

But demoting the cups-daemon ⇒ cups-browsed relationship from a Recommends to
a Suggests is something we should consider, and your argumentation makes sense
to me.

@Till: any opinion?

Cheers,
    OdyX

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