Request: CUPS Snap (“cups”) auto connection to of cups:cups-control to cups:admin and also of the network-manager-observe interface

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@alexmurray, sorry, I did not tell you that I investigated the mode where the CUPS Snap and the system’s CUPS run in parallel, in preparation to implement the plans described here.

If you have no classic CUPS running and install the CUPS Snap, it creates the socket at the standard position, /run/cups/cups.sock, only if there is a classic CUPS running, the socket is created at /var/snap/cups/common/run/cups.sock.

To determine which socket the CUPS Snap is currently using, run

cups.lpstat -H
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@till.kamppeter so it sounds like the cups-control and the cups interfaces in snapd need updating then to include this new path. Given this use-case of running both the classic distro installed cups and the cups snap is less likely to be used in practice, this sounds like it can be followed up via a PR to snapd rather than anything else here on the forum, so unless there is anything else, I think this request is complete from what I can see.