[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#617468: solution: purge and re-install to force an upgrade of the PPD

[Martin-Éric Racine]

After careful examination, it appears that the 3 superfluous lines in
the PPD were added by the "PDF Workflow" patch that was used for 2.5.0
releases, but has been removed since CUPS-PDF 2.5.1. However, the PPD
was not automatically upgraded by our package's maintainer script,
which is probably what broke things for people upgrading to some 2.5.1
release. This has been fixed as of CUPS-PDF 2.5.1-4 which entered
unstable today, by utilizing a feature of CUPS 1.5.0-3 and more recent
to auto-update PPD files whenever a new version gets installed.

As a crude test, for older releases, could you try purging and
re-installing the package and see if it fixes it?

sudo dpkg -P cups-pdf && sudo apt-get install cups-pdf

Best regards,
Martin-Éric