[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#619461: Bug#619461: cups-pdf: PDFVer and GSCall keys not taken into account

[Volker Behr]

On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 17:54 +0100, Jean-Philippe Thierry wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Le 24 mars 2011 15:44, Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine at iki.fi>
> a écrit :
>         2011/3/24 Volker Behr <behr at physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>:
>         > The log-file you sent me contains the following line:
>         >
>         > Thu Mar 24 11:05:53 2011  [DEBUG] file already pdf, simply
>         copying it
>         >
>         (cp /var/spool/cups-pdf/SPOOL/cups2pdf-12256 /home/jpht/tmp/PDF/Bugs_in_package_cups-pdf_--_Debian_Bug_report_logs.pdf)
>         >
>         > This option to directly copy PDF instead of reprocessing it
>         was
>         > suggested to me some time back and I decided not to
>         implement it since
>         > it would disable all options set in cups-pdf.conf on the
>         respective
>         > files. This is exactly what happens to you here: the PDF is
>         just passed
>         > through instead of getting re-worked with all your desired
>         options by
>         > CUPS-PDF.
>         >
>         > So, speaking for upstream: no fix needed.
>         > My advise to the distribution: remove this additional patch
>         on CUPS-PDF
>         > since it breaks basic functionality.
>         
>         
>         The patch in question was removed in 2.5.1-1 as far as Debian
>         and
>         Ubuntu are concerned:
>         
>         * Dropped 70_cups-pdf_support-pdf-workflow.patch
>            + This patch has received more criticism than praises from
>         the end-users,
>              because it essentially renders the Ghostscript options in
>         cups-pdf.conf
>              useless, plus it no longer applies cleanly to the
>         upstream code.
>         
>         From this perspective, I'd mark the issue as fixed since that
>         version. Agreed?
>         
>         Martin-Éric
> 
> just tried installing cups-pdf from sid on my squeeze. GSCall and
> PDFVer are taken into acount but... I am only getting 1 page empty
> documents; even failling back to the default settings
> in /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf. Could it be due to a dependency issue even
> if not raised by the package?
> 
> log file attached
> 
Just as a note:

might be related to issue #617468