[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#593338: cups: REGRESSION (1.3.8 -> 1.4.4): pstops produces postscript that hangs Ricoh Aficio 3035

[Timo Juhani Lindfors]

Package: cups
Version: 1.4.4-2
Severity: normal

Just FYI since this affects people upgrading from lenny to squeeze. I
reported the bug with a testcase and printer specific workaround
upstream at

http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3646+P0+S-2+C0+I0+E0+M1000+Q




-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii  adduser               3.112              add and remove users and groups
ii  bc                    1.06.95-2          The GNU bc arbitrary precision cal
ii  cups-client           1.4.4-2            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  cups-common           1.4.4-2            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.33             Debian configuration management sy
ii  ghostscript           8.71~dfsg2-4       The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  libavahi-client3      0.6.26-1           Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3      0.6.26-1           Avahi common library
ii  libc6                 2.11.2-2           Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcups2              1.4.4-2            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupscgi1           1.4.4-2            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsdriver1        1.4.4-2            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsimage2         1.4.4-2            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsmime1          1.4.4-2            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsppdc1          1.4.4-2            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3           1.2.24-3           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcc1               1:4.4.4-8          GCC support library
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2      1.8.3+dfsg~beta1-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libijs-0.35           0.35-7             IJS raster image transport protoco
ii  libkrb5-3             1.8.3+dfsg~beta1-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2         2.4.17-2.1         OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g              1.1.1-3            Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1             1.1.24             library for handling paper charact
ii  libpoppler5           0.12.4-1           PDF rendering library
ii  libslp1               1.2.1-7.7          OpenSLP libraries
ii  libstdc++6            4.4.4-8            The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4          2:0.1.12-15        userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base              3.2-23.1           Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  perl-modules          5.10.1-14          Core Perl modules
ii  poppler-utils         0.12.4-1           PDF utilitites (based on libpopple
ii  procps                1:3.2.8-9          /proc file system utilities
ii  ssl-cert              1.0.25             simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL
ii  ttf-freefont          20090104-7         Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True
ii  zlib1g                1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3   compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii  cups-driver-gutenprint    5.2.5-1        printer drivers for CUPS
ii  foomatic-filters          4.0-20090509-1 OpenPrinting printer support - fil
ii  ghostscript-cups          8.71~dfsg2-4   The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF

Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii  cups-bsd                  1.4.4-2        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
pn  cups-pdf                  <none>         (no description available)
pn  cups-ppdc                 <none>         (no description available)
ii  foomatic-db               20100630-1     OpenPrinting printer support - dat
ii  foomatic-db-engine        4.0.4-1        OpenPrinting printer support - pro
pn  hplip                     <none>         (no description available)
ii  smbclient                 2:3.4.8~dfsg-2 command-line SMB/CIFS clients for 
ii  udev                      160-1          /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
pn  xpdf-korean | xpdf-japane <none>         (no description available)

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/cups/cupsd.conf changed [not included]
/etc/cups/mime.convs changed [not included]

-- debconf information excluded