[cups.development] [RFE] STR #2644: Sharing should not be disabled automatically for remote printers

[J. Scott Berg]

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This piece of code in scheduler/printers.c

  if (p->type & (CUPS_PRINTER_REMOTE | CUPS_PRINTER_IMPLICIT))
    p->shared = 0;

disables sharing for remote printers (in my case, a queue without a PPD
that simply passes jobs onto another IPP server, sometimes on the same
machine).  There are multiple reasons that creating a shared queue to pass
on requests to another (possibly remote, but not always) queue is useful
(getting jobs through firewalls, multiplexing processed and unprocessed
jobs).  This worked fine under 1.2.x, the above code in 1.3.x prevents
these queues from accepting remote jobs.

Please enabled sharing for CUPS_PRINTER_REMOTE printers, at least for
those explicitly configured in printers.conf.  Thanks.

Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2644
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