[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#368450: cupsys: want dvi conversion built in by default

Francesco Potorti` Potorti at isti.cnr.it
Mon May 22 12:07:45 UTC 2006


Package: cupsys
Version: 1.1.23-15
Severity: wishlist

Please, install the dvi filter by default in the Debian package.

It was not immediate to discover about it, and it took some time to
guess how to install it, as there are no explicit instructions.

It works, so again, please install it by default in the distribution.

At the very least, please add these instrucions to a
/doc/cupsys/examples/filters/dvipipetops.INSTALL file:

================
To use the dvipipetops filter:
- create an /etc/cups/local.convs file and add the contents of
  dvipipetops.convs to it
- add the contents of dvipipetops.types to /etc/cups/mime.types
- uncompress dvipipetops, give it exec permissions and put it in
  /usr/lib/cups/filter
- restart cups with /etc/init.d/cupsys restart

Now you can directly print .dvi files with cups without first converting
them to ps.
================

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.30-pre2-pr-hrt-1kHz-1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=it_IT at euro (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)

Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.87            Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.0           Debian configuration management sy
ii  gs-esp                   8.15.1.dfsg.1-2 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii  libc6                    2.3.6-7         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcupsimage2            1.1.23-15       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsys2               1.1.23-15       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libgnutls12              1.2.9-2         the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libpam0g                 0.79-3.1        Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1                1.1.14-7        Library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1                  1.2.1-5         OpenSLP libraries
ii  patch                    2.5.9-4         Apply a diff file to an original
ii  perl-modules             5.8.8-4         Core Perl modules
ii  procps                   1:3.2.6-2.2     /proc file system utilities
ii  xpdf-utils               3.01-7          Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.3-11      compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cupsys recommends:
ii  cupsys-client           1.1.23-15        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  foomatic-filters        3.0.2-20060318-2 linuxprinting.org printer support 
ii  smbclient               3.0.22-1         a LanManager-like simple client fo

-- debconf information:
  cupsys/raw-print: true
  cupsys/browse: false
  cupsys/ports: 631
  cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, socket, usb
  cupsys/portserror:




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