[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#509518: Bug#509518: cups-pdf: does not reliably create pdf-queue

[Martin-Éric Racine]

retitle 509518 cups-pdf: please merge Ubuntu changes to automatically
add the PDF queue
tags 509518 wontfix
severity 509518 wishlist
done

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Manny Vindiola <mannyv at gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: cups-pdf
> Version: 2.4.8-4
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
> Usertags: origin-ubuntu intrepid ubuntu-patch
>
> We applied these changes in Ubuntu and thought you might consider doing the same:
> Sometime due to restart/configuration race condition the PDF-printer (queue) is not created
> We have modified the postinstall so that it no longer restarts cups and installs a pdf queue and printer.
> Patches are attached.
>
> *** /tmp/tmpowFKGE
> In Ubuntu, we've applied the attached patch to achieve the following:
>
>  * Merge from debian unstable (LP: #310290), remaining changes:
>    - debian/postinst, debian/prerm: Let PDF print queue being created
>      automatically when installing the package and being removed
>      automatically when uninstalling the package.
>    - debian/postinst: Updated PPD file name to the new one used by the
>      upstream package (LP: #241701). Updated the name of the CUPS startup
>      script to "cups".

Thank you for your report.

I don't like Ubuntu's brute force approach to adding the PDF queue by
directly hacking the CUPS configuration, which is why I haven't merged
those particular changes into the Debian package. I'll thus leave this
report as open and mark it as WONTFIX, in case anyone ever wonders why
I have never merged them.

I have already merged other Ubuntu that I find acceptable for Debian, though. :)

Martin-Éric