Comment 14 for bug 127120

Yes, hal-cups-utils just like system-config-printer are not installed by default, only in Xubuntu. Debian has not yet taken hal-cups-utils.
Regarding gnome-cups-manager I have tried sending patches last year to upstream to no avail, but the code is messy enough not to be worth it imho to have our own fork. I wanted to do that too when upstream failed to answer, but seb128 was not happy about us having an upstream gnome package taken over that way.