Re: [Printing-architecture] cups-browsed: how to treat rejecting queues?

[Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>]

On 11/04/2013 01:23 PM, Tim Waugh wrote:
> When cups-browsed creates local queues to forward jobs to remote queues,
> I wonder how it should treat queues that are not accepting jobs? The way
> cupsd used to behave was to copy the remote printer's state to the local
> implicit queue, but cups-browsed is not structured in that way: it
> doesn't update the queues it creates.
> 
> The problem with the current behaviour is that the GTK+ print dialog
> will allow a queue rejecting jobs to be selected.
> 
> See also discussion of this for Fedora:
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1025263
> 
> Tim.
> */
> 

I have checked further, cups-browsed indeed does not update queues on
Bonjour record changes, the update to https is triggered by a completely
new Bonjour broadcast.

I have also tried to switch a printer on my server between accepting and
rejecting state, and this does not make CUPS/Avahi generating an update
of the Bonjour record (= sending a broadcast), avahi-discover on a
client did not show any evidence of a signal broadcasted because of this
change. Can this be a bug in CUPS which we should report?

   Till