[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#578079: Bug#578079: I can see this bug too

[Martin-Éric Racine]

2011/4/28 Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org>:
> Hi Tom,
>
> did you find a solution for this bug? I see it on one squeeze system, while
> not on another. Both print to a cups server running squeeze.
>
> lpq and "lpc status" both show the queues nicely to me, yet lpr fails as you
> described: "lpr: Upgrade Required" :(

I'm starting to suspect that upstream made some backward-incompatible
changes to the way queues are handled, because we get a similar
problem with CUPS-PDF, but only whenever the package gets upgraded; if
it's installed from scratch or purged then re-installed, it works as
it should.

Either that, or Debian's own choice of using a non-default backend to
handle absolutely everything as pure PDF, in a case where upstream
defaults to basic Postscript, might be involved. Till Kampetter in
fact suggested that this could be a plausible cause for the blank page
issue we get with CUPS-PDF upgrades.

Martin-Éric