id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,resolution,keywords,cc,fix_version,see_also
670,CUPS 1.3 clients can't get queue state from CUPS 1.4 servers,geofft,,"This is a continuation of ticket #652, which we worked around locally by detecting pre-1.4 clients and falling back to an implementation of RFC-1179 lpq in five lines of Python.

We've opened [CUPS:3619 ticket #3619 in CUPS' bugtracker] about this issue. They recommended trying a newer version of the 1.3.x branch, but that did not work for me. We should track down what's different between the lpq implementations in 1.3 and 1.4.

I'll note that although lpstat seemed to work for Jon, it does not for me (on Linerva, with cups-bsd 1.3.8-1+lenny8). Perhaps something is wrong with my syntax, but...
{{{
dr-wily:~ geofft$ lpstat -h get-print acantha
lpstat: No printer-uri in request!
dr-wily:~ geofft$ lpstat -h get-print -p acantha
printer acantha now printing acantha-0.  enabled since Sat 14 Aug 2010 04:01:44 PM EDT
        Connecting to printer...
}}}
{{{
contents-vnder-pressvre:~ geofft$ lpstat -h get-print acantha
w84prt-451473           [...]          12972032   Fri 13 Aug 2010 04:27:50 PM EDT
w84prt-451474           [...]          12958720   Fri 13 Aug 2010 04:27:58 PM EDT
w84prt-451475           [...]          17232896   Fri 13 Aug 2010 04:28:05 PM EDT
acantha-451500          [...]           997376   Fri 13 Aug 2010 05:31:04 PM EDT
contents-vnder-pressvre:~ geofft$ lpstat -h get-print -p acantha
printer acantha now printing acantha-0.  enabled since Sat 14 Aug 2010 04:01:44 PM EDT
        Connecting to printer...
}}}

(cvp has cups-bsd 1.4.3-1ubuntu1.2.) Should I expect something after ""Connecting to printer...""?",defect,closed,normal,Upstream Utopia,--,wontfix,,,,CUPS:3619