CUPS 1.3.0-RC2 available for Ubuntu Gutsy now -- Please test!!

[Till Kamppeter]

I have uploaded new packages again, but this time with -0ubuntu2 release 
number.

These add the new AppArmor support which Martin Pitt introduced as 
replacement for the now dropped non-root mode with the new 
cupsys-1.2.12-1ubuntu2. Please test these packages to see whether it 
also works well with the new authentication and network features of CUPS 
1.3.x.

See especially the output of

grep audit.*cupsd /var/log/kern.log

but also

/var/log/cups/error_log

The AppArmor profile is

/etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.cupsd

To make AppArmore enforcing it use

sudo aa-enforce cupsd

Please report your experience here.

    Till


Till Kamppeter wrote:
> The originally uploaded packages are broken. They have a bug which 
> prevented CUPS from finding the PostScript PPDs, leading printer setup 
> tools to assign generic PostScript PPDs or PCL PPDs to PostScript printers.
> 
> I have uploaded new packages with this problem fixed now. The files are 
> at the same place and have the same names as the old ones. So everyone 
> who has downloaded them already, please download and install them again.
> 
> I have also reported this problem upstream:
> 
> http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2464
> 
> Please install also hal-cups-utils and system-config-printer and test 
> them with the new CUPS.
> 
> system-config-printer is Red Hat's printer setup tool and candidate for 
> replacing gnome-cups-manager.
> 
> hal-cups-utils are scripts for HAL which set up print queues 
> automatically when the printer is plugged (Plug'n'Print, 
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/automatic-printer-conf) 
> and disable print queues of printers which are not connected or turned 
> off. hal-cups-utils works currently only with USB printers.
> 
> Test system-config-printer by calling it from the command line and doing 
> your printer administration with it (setting options, (un)sharing your 
> printers, adding and cloning print queues).
> 
> Test hal-cups-utils by unplugging your USB printer and plugging it 
> again. While it is unplugged, the queue is disabled and CUPS does not do 
> unneeded retries of the jobs. As soon as you plug it it gets enabled 
> again and all queued jobs get printed. To see automatic queue setup, 
> remove the queues for your USB printer, unplug the printer and plug it 
> again. After some seconds you have a new queue. In case of an HP 
> printer, the queues are set up using HPLIP and if your HP MF device has 
> a fax also a fax queue is created.
> 
>    Till
> 
> Till Kamppeter wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have packaged CUPS 1.3.0-RC2, as we talked about on last week's 
>> developer meeting.
>>
>> You can download the binary packages from
>>
>> http://www.linux-foundation.org/~till/tmp/ubuntu/gutsy/cupsys13/binary/
>>
>> and the source from
>>
>> http://www.linux-foundation.org/~till/tmp/ubuntu/gutsy/cupsys13/
>>
>> This is the new generation of CUPS, offering many new features (I hope 
>> I have activated all of them when compiling). See
>>
>> http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/whatsnew.html
>>
>> Please try it out. We need all your testing experience to be able to 
>> ship a Gutsy with a stable and not obsolete CUPS system.
>>
>> NOTE: This CUPS runs as root, as pitti did not adapt his non-root 
>> patches to it. All other patches from Debian and Ubuntu are applied 
>> and so this CUPS should work as the original one from Ubuntu.
>>
>>    Till
>>
> 
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