Bug#564929: system-config-printer: Jobs are not displayed in printing queues (they, remain always empty).

[Terry Watt]

The version available in Debian is useless for Squeeze or Sid, at least 
with the majority of printers and settings.  I don't know what changed 
or exactly when, but it was sometime around June 2009 or earlier in 
Sid.  A few months ago I just installed an updated version (1.1.15) from 
the official website, and it works fine (although there are some minor 
changes to the way the GUI presents information).  In addition to 
system-config-printer, I had to install python-cups, python-smbclient, 
and the cupshelpers, also from the maintainer's website, or perhaps just 
linked from there.  I also remember having a few issues with 
hal-cups-utils, but think that just leaving the Debian package in place 
worked best.