[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#435737: cupsys: pdftops filter is borked, apparently

[Steve Greenland]

Package: cupsys
Version: 1.2.7-4
Severity: normal

Printing from my wife's mac osx no longer works. It appears that the
pdftops filter is broken, referring to a file that no longer exists:

I [02/Aug/2007:13:37:26 -0500] Job 165 queued on "Laser" by "steveg".
I [02/Aug/2007:13:37:26 -0500] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops (PID 
8221) for job 165.
I [02/Aug/2007:13:37:26 -0500] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 8
222) for job 165.
I [02/Aug/2007:13:37:26 -0500] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel (P
ID 8223) for job 165.
E [02/Aug/2007:13:37:27 -0500] [Job 165] pdftops-options: -cfg /etc/cups/pdftops

Editing /usr/lib/cups/filters/pdftops to remove the reference to /etc/cups/pdftops doesn't help: 

I [02/Aug/2007:15:57:26 -0500] Job 172 queued on "Laser" by "erinblair".
I [02/Aug/2007:15:57:26 -0500] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops (PID 
8529) for job 172.
I [02/Aug/2007:15:57:26 -0500] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 8
530) for job 172.
I [02/Aug/2007:15:57:26 -0500] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel (P
ID 8531) for job 172.
E [02/Aug/2007:15:57:26 -0500] [Job 172] pdftops-options: 


This worked before the upgrade to etch on the print server.

(This appears to be the same bug as Ubunto 125300. That user reports
that removing the '-cfg /etc/cups/pdftops.cfg' option fixes the problem.
Hmmm.)

Regards,
Steve

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (300, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-486
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.102           Add and remove users and groups
ii  cupsys-common            1.2.7-4         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.11          Debian configuration management sy
ii  gs-esp                   8.15.3.dfsg.1-1 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii  libc6                    2.3.6.ds1-13    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcupsimage2            1.2.7-4         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsys2               1.2.7-4         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3              1.0.2-1         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgnutls13              1.4.4-3         the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libldap2                 2.1.30-13.3     OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g                 0.79-4          Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1                1.1.21          Library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1                  1.2.1-6.2       OpenSLP libraries
ii  lsb-base                 3.1-23.1        Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  patch                    2.5.9-4         Apply a diff file to an original
ii  perl-modules             5.8.8-7         Core Perl modules
ii  procps                   1:3.2.7-3       /proc file system utilities
ii  xpdf-utils [poppler-util 3.01-9          Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.3-13      compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cupsys recommends:
ii  cupsys-client                 1.2.7-4    Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
pn  foomatic-filters              <none>     (no description available)
pn  smbclient                     <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  cupsys/raw-print: true
  cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, socket, usb