I agree! I'd just replace the file like the ubuntu-folks did. Maybe a fancy debian specific PS file? Sorry, I have _no_ art skills, otherwise I'd send a patch right away.
greets Michael Am Mittwoch, den 06.06.2007, 16:32 +0200 schrieb Sven Arvidsson: > On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 03:50 +0200, Michael Schmitt wrote: > > Hi Sven, and all others, > > > > I agree, we should not wait till gnome fixes it if the reason why this > > breaks the testpage is known and obvious! I had this issue myself the > > last hours and I never thought this is just the gnome testpage that does > > not work. It was just by chance I tried the cups-testpage on the > > webinterface and I was really perplexed as it worked there after I have > > found out that it may be a problem with the PS transformation. It took > > one minute thinking to see the problem lies where I never thought it > > could be... after hours of googleing, purging and reinstalling cups / > > gs-* and lots of other things! > > > > To be honest, I barely can't believe that this bug is known for more > > than half a year now and still not fixed. > > > > Please fix that issue! So maybe several thousands, millions, billions of > > other Debian users don't fall into this trap too, thinking their printer > > is broken just because the testpage does not work. Guess... a testpage > > should be for testing purposes, suboptimal if this does not work but > > everything else does. > > Hi, > > No, waiting for upstream to fix this is probably not a good idea, > gnome-cups-manager haven't had a new release since 2005... > > I'm not sure what the best solution (or work around) is? There's a > suggestion in bug 379510 (commenting out the code "b4_inc_state > restore"). Looking at the Ubuntu package, it seems they are simply > replacing the eps files with proper ps ones. > > I would really appreciate it if someone from pkg-gnome could have a look > on this. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
