Package: cupsys Version: 1.1.23-10 Severity: normal
For a few times, on different machines, working with debian sarge when it was testing and when it recently matured to stable, I observed the following situations: - I have configured, working printer (managed by cups) - after some apt-get update printing just stops to work (I analysed it deeper once, it finished to be problem with incorrect filters configured) - simple walk through CUPS web interface 'configure printer' option (accepting defaults hinted according to the previous config) causes printing to work again I am not sure what exactly is happening here but it seems to me that some printer characteristics or filter selections are updated when I re-configure the printer. I do not know whether it is possible to solve this problem completely (it would of course be nice if necessary updates happened when packages are updated). I am also unable to specify exact version numbers for all the situations (version specified here respond to the system on which I just performed 'walk' to restore printing but I do not remember when exactly it stopped working, it was no more than 3 months ago but thats all what I remember). Therefore I do not expect this bug to be formally 'solved'. I file it because I think that somebody who knows cups internals better than me can imagine how the current upgrade process can be improved. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.8 Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL (charmap=ISO-8859-2) Versions of packages cupsys depends on: ii adduser 3.64 Add and remove users and groups ii debconf 1.4.51 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libcupsimage2 1.1.23-10 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libcupsys2-gnutls10 1.1.23-10 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libgnutls11 1.0.16-13.1 GNU TLS library - runtime library ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpaper1 1.1.14-3 Library for handling paper charact ii libslp1 1.2.1-2 OpenSLP libraries ii patch 2.5.9-2 Apply a diff file to an original ii perl-modules 5.8.7-3 Core Perl modules ii xpdf-utils 3.00-13 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime Versions of packages cupsys recommends: ii cupsys-client 1.1.23-10 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii gs-esp 7.07.1-9 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr ii smbclient 3.0.14a-3 a LanManager-like simple client fo -- debconf information: cupsys/raw-print: true cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, socket, usb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
