[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#513956: Outdated version of URW-fonts (missing cyrillic characters) is provided with cups

[Victor Wagner]

Package: cups
Version: 1.3.8-1lenny4.1
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n


Package cups provides pfa postscript fonts in /usr/lib/cups/fonts
which are used by texttops filter.

Courier font from this package seems to be URW NimbusMono version 1.05.
This fonts do not contain cyrillic glyphs, so it is impossible to print
cyrillic text/plain files with cups in the default configuration.

However, Debian lenny distribution already contains URW fonts version
1.06, which contain cyrillic glyphs in the package t1-cyrillic.

Replacing /usr/share/cups/fonts/Courier with slightly edited 
pfa version /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/n022003d.pfb
(converted by pfb2pfa program from texlive-font-utils package)
allows to print cyrillic texts. It seems that users of 
Latin-1 languages shouldn't be affected, because these fonts contain 
all Latin-1 glyphs.


Version of cups from experimental (1.3.9-12) seems to have same version
of fonts.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-486
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R (charmap=KOI8-R)
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        1.3.8-1lenny4.1       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  debconf [debconf-2 1.5.24                Debian configuration management sy
ii  ghostscript        8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny0 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  libavahi-compat-li 0.6.22-3+lenny1       Avahi Apple Bonjour compatibility 
ii  libc6              2.7-18                GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcups2           1.3.8-1lenny4.1       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsimage2      1.3.8-1lenny4.1       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3        1.2.1-5               simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgnutls26        2.4.2-4               the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libkrb53           1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5    MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2      2.4.11-1              OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g           1.0.1-5               Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1          1.1.23+nmu1           library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1            1.2.1-7.5             OpenSLP libraries
ii  lsb-base           3.2-20                Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  perl-modules       5.10.0-19             Core Perl modules
ii  procps             1:3.2.7-11            /proc file system utilities
ii  ssl-cert           1.0.23                simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL
ii  xpdf-utils [popple 3.02-1.4              Portable Document Format (PDF) sui

Versions of packages cups recommends:
pn  avahi-utils              <none>          (no description available)
ii  cups-client              1.3.8-1lenny4.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
pn  foomatic-filters         <none>          (no description available)
ii  smbclient                2:3.2.5-4       a LanManager-like simple client fo

Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii  cups-bsd                 1.3.8-1lenny4.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
pn  cups-driver-gutenprint   <none>          (no description available)
pn  cups-pdf                 <none>          (no description available)
pn  foomatic-db              <none>          (no description available)
pn  foomatic-db-engine       <none>          (no description available)
pn  hplip                    <none>          (no description available)
pn  xpdf-korean | xpdf-japan <none>          (no description available)

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