Please test new cups packages

[George Farris]

On Fri, 2006-14-04 at 14:35 +0100, Mark Syms wrote:
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> > Please tell me about any regressions you encounter compared to the
> > current Dapper packages. Please also give me a quick note about
> > success (a reply with just a single word 'works for my foobar printer'
> > is fine :) ) so that we know about the test coverage.
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> Seems to work OK with my Epson Stylus Photo 890, test page printed OK
> anyway.
> 
> As a side issue, I have a printer statically defined in CUPS for this
> printer but get prompted for admin rights to add a new one when I switch
> it on. Is it possible to make the detection script a bit more
> intelligent and check if there is a config for the detected printer
> before asking for sudo rights? Just a thought.
> 

BTW the configuration dialog in Ubuntu shows ipp://hostname/ipp/port as
a tooltip.  It should be ipp://hostname/printers/<printername>.  

This confuses the hell out of people when they want to share printers.

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George Farris
george at gmsys.com