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cups package

  1. Bug #465916
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 465916

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Luke Symes (allsymes) wrote :

Upstream CUPS bug for Avahi Support: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3066 (not recognized by Launchpad upstream integration).

Found a sad comment on one of it's duplicates:
"Note that this patch is not a complete implementation - it only handles discovery of printers via DNS-SD, it doesn't handle sharing of CUPS printers via DNS-SD."

The problem with Avahi (http://www.avahi.org/ticket/303) is that:
"kDNSServiceFlagsShareConnection is now used throughout CUPS's DNS-SD feature set (CUPS 1.4). This is not implemented in dns_sd.h, so Avahi support is not able to be added to CUPS."

Thus, even if we get CUPS to compile with Avahi support, it won't be able to share printers via DNS-SD.