[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#232549: cupsys: lp -n still prints n^2 copies

[Will Aoki]

found 232549 1.2.7-4
thanks

Bug 232549 is still present in 1.2.7-4: 'lp -n number' still prints
'number' squared copies of the job. Unlike the original reporter, I
notice that this problem occurs regardless of whether I print from a
remote client or from the print server itself.

I reproduced the problem using an HP PSC 2510 connected over the network
using the 'hpoj' package. CUPS sees "DeviceURI ptal:hpjd:my.printer.hostname.here".
I reproduced the bug by printing a PostScript file made by running latex
and dvips on the following LaTeX input:

  \documentclass{article}
  \begin{document}

  This is a test document to investigate a printing bug.

  \end{document}

On the multipage document I was printing when I noticed the problem, I
saw that I got runs of several copies of the same page in sequence
before getting copies of the next page. After I canceled the print job,
I neglected to preserve the output order, but I think that within
sequences, the number of copies printed of a particular page was less
than the number of pages I asked for, and that overall, the page number
was not monotonically increasing throughout the output. When I can spare
the paper and ink, I'll conduct another test and report the output
order. (I may be able to do this at work this week or next week, as I'll
be testing the CUPS packages found in etch to see if I can upgrade the
print server from sarge without breaking printing for MacOS users.)

I seem to recall seeing the same problem with MacOS X clients and a
Debian print server several years ago. I don't know if it was ever
solved. If I can dig up my notes on that, I'll post 'em to the bug
report.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.35
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

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.ds1-13etch2 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               3.1-23.2etch1     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-ut 3.01-9etch1       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) - 
ii  foomatic-filters      3.0.2-20061031-1.2 linuxprinting.org printer support 
ii  smbclient             3.0.24-6etch4      a LanManager-like simple client fo

-- debconf information:
* cupsys/raw-print: false
* cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, socket