[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#500732: cups ingores duplex setting in postscript files

[Harry Edmon]

Package: cups
Version: 1.3.8-1lenny1
Severity: important

cups is not paying attention to the duplex lines inside a DSC standard
postscript file like those produced by Macs and Windows PCs.  Instead cups
resets the duplex to whatever is the default for the print queue.  This used
to work in etch.  I have verified it with several types of printers
- HP LJ4650 and Ricoh CL4000DN.  From looking at the data being sent to the
printer, it is replacing the line in the postscript file:

<</Duplex true /Tumble false>> setpagedevice

with:

<</Duplex false>>setpagedevice

Please restore the behavior in etch.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.5 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii  adduser               3.110              add and remove users and groups
ii  cups-common           1.3.8-1lenny1      Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.22             Debian configuration management sy
ii  ghostscript           8.62.dfsg.1-3.1    The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  libavahi-compat-libdn 0.6.22-3           Avahi Apple Bonjour compatibility 
ii  libc6                 2.7-13             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcups2              1.3.8-1lenny1      Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsimage2         1.3.8-1lenny1      Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3           1.2.1-3            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgnutls26           2.4.1-1            the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libkrb53              1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2         2.4.10-3           OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g              1.0.1-4            Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1             1.1.23+nmu1        library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1               1.2.1-7.4          OpenSLP libraries
ii  lsb-base              3.2-20             Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  perl-modules          5.10.0-14          Core Perl modules
ii  procps                1:3.2.7-8          /proc file system utilities
ii  ssl-cert              1.0.22             simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL
ii  xpdf-utils [poppler-u 3.02-1.4           Portable Document Format (PDF) sui

Versions of packages cups recommends:
pn  avahi-utils           <none>             (no description available)
ii  cups-client           1.3.8-1lenny1      Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  foomatic-filters      3.0.2-20080211-3.1 OpenPrinting printer support - fil
ii  smbclient             2:3.2.3-1          a LanManager-like simple client fo

Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii  cups-bsd                1.3.8-1lenny1    Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
pn  cups-driver-gutenprint  <none>           (no description available)
pn  cups-pdf                <none>           (no description available)
ii  foomatic-db             20080211-2+nmu1  OpenPrinting printer support - dat
ii  foomatic-db-engine      3.0.2-20080211-1 OpenPrinting printer support - pro
ii  hplip                   2.8.6.b-1        HP Linux Printing and Imaging Syst
pn  xpdf-korean | xpdf-japa <none>           (no description available)

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