[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#511009: Bug#511009: all output printed as raw pdf

[Martin-Éric Racine]

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Bdale Garbee <bdale at gag.com> wrote:
> severity 511009 serious
> thanks
>
> I'm seeing this problem now.
>
> All of my printers started spewing pages of raw pdf when I upgraded to
> cups 1.3.9-14 yesterday from whatever was in unstable as of a week or so
> ago.  All of them are HP devices using hplip and network interfaces.
>
> The problem apparently is that the files in /etc/cups/ppd ended up with
> two lines starting '*cupsFilter:', like:
>
>  *cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-postscript 100 foomatic-rip"
>  *cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-pdf 0 foomatic-rip"
>
> Removing the second line and changing the '100' in the first to '0' got
> things working again.
>
> I gather this is a transition problem in the move from ps to pdf that foomatic
> isn't quite ready for yet?  In any case, it's a pretty horrific bug that
> really must get resolved before squeeze releases, so I'm increasing the
> severity on this bug to serious.

Given the sheer amount of people that have complained since just
before Lenny was released, I'd be tempted to drop a patch in
debian/patches to make exactly that small change and to even release
this with the next Lenny RC update. While this isn't a security issue,
it's enough of a drastic change and simple enough to fix that it might
be worth including in that next Lenny RC release.  CUPS team, how
about it?

Martin-Éric