Probably it because debootstrapped environment has a different hostname set than on a host system, and lpadmin thinks that it tries to communicate with cups on a different machine (e.g. over the network)?
2011/2/23 Martin-Éric Racine <q-f...@iki.fi> > No, I'll just reassign the bug to cups-client. > > However, I'm really puzzled as to why 'lpadmin' does this. That it > would ask non-root users for a password is expected, but 'dpkg' is run > as root who, by definition, has full access credentials to anything. > > 2011/2/23 Dmitry Baryshev <ksquirrel...@gmail.com>: > > BTW should I file a new bug against cups-client? > > > > 2011/2/23 Dmitry Baryshev <ksquirrel...@gmail.com> > >> > >> Please feel free to ask me for any info you need > >> > >> 2011/2/23 Martin-Éric Racine <q-f...@iki.fi> > >>> > >>> 2011/2/23 Krasu <ksquirrel...@gmail.com>: > >>> > Package: cups-pdf > >>> > Version: 2.5.0-16 > >>> > Severity: important > >>> > > >>> > The latest cups-pdf version asks for a root password during > >>> > installation. One > >>> > or two months ago it didn't ask. This breaks automatic rootfs builds > >>> > via > >>> > debootstrap. > >>> > >>> There hasn't been any change with how the installation is performed in > >>> CUPS-PDF since 2.5.0-8 which was published in September 2009. I > >>> therefore have to conclude that the issue involves a recent change of > >>> behavior in CUPS' version of the 'lpadmin' command. > >>> > >>> Martin-Éric > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Regards, Krasu > > > > > > > > -- > > Regards, Krasu > > > > > > -- > http://q-funk.iki.fi > -- Regards, Krasu
