[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#427679: cupsys: cups/foomatic-rip need better error reporting

[Martin Pitt]

Sam Morris [2007-06-05 19:52 +0100]:
> Anyway, I was setting up a printer today and I ran into the problem that
> I didn't have the foo2qpdl binary from the foo2zjs package available.
> The problem was that CUPS' error reporting was quite poor.
> 
> CUPS said that the status of the printer was "/usr/bin/foomatic-rip
> failed". But it didn't say _why_ it failed. I had to run 'foomatic-rip
> - -v -P printername' by hand, and pipe some postscript through it in order
> to find out why it failed.

Shouldn't it help to enable debug logging in cups? 
(cupsctl --debug-logging, or setting LogLevel in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf)

Martin
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