[Bug 213081] Re: CUPS does not print to LPD printer

[Brian Burch]

I agree with you Stefan, but don't see any reason for you to have
regrets!

When this bug was "hot", it was because a new kernel had just been
released for Hardy LTS. It broke a lot of stable printing systems and so
we knew we would have to live with the bug for the next 18 months. Our
bypass seemed to be acceptable to everyone who was affected by the bug,
but several of us spent a lot of time trying to backport the kernel fix
before giving up because it was too complex.

Lucid is the new LTS, so Hardy's days are numbered and (as I said
before) there is a bypass.

Anyone who experiences the original  symptoms:- slow or never-completing
printing with an ancient tcp stack in the printer... needs to treat it
as a new bug and do proper problem determination. That means wireshark
traces to identify the broken protocol sequence. Once the low-level
symptoms are identified unambiguously, we can reproduce it and try to
get it fixed.

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CUPS does not print to LPD printer
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213081
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