Package: cups Version: 1.5.0-16 Severity: grave [521]$ echo "Hello, world" | lpr lpr: Unsupported document-format "text/plain".
The split off of a separate cups-filters package omits the "texttops" command which is called for in /etc/cups/mime.convs. # dpkg-deb -c cups-filters_1.0~b1-3_i386.deb | grep filter/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2012-01-30 01:41 ./usr/lib/cups/filter/ -rwxr-xr-x root/root 34076 2012-01-30 01:41 ./usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertoescpx -rwxr-xr-x root/root 55960 2012-01-30 01:41 ./usr/lib/cups/filter/imagetoraster -rwxr-xr-x root/root 149088 2012-01-30 01:41 ./usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftoopvp -rwxr-xr-x root/root 9500 2012-01-30 01:41 ./usr/lib/cups/filter/commandtoescpx -rwxr-xr-x root/root 89192 2012-01-30 01:41 ./usr/lib/cups/filter/texttopdf -rwxr-xr-x root/root 6481 2012-01-30 01:41 ./usr/lib/cups/filter/pstopdf -rwxr-xr-x root/root 155740 2012-01-30 01:41 ./usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdf -rwxr-xr-x root/root 21904 2012-01-30 01:41 ./usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftoijs -rwxr-xr-x root/root 17752 2012-01-30 01:41 ./usr/lib/cups/filter/bannertopdf -rwxr-xr-x root/root 34076 2012-01-30 01:41 ./usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertopclx -rwxr-xr-x root/root 5404 2012-01-30 01:41 ./usr/lib/cups/filter/commandtopclx -rwxr-xr-x root/root 34196 2012-01-30 01:41 ./usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftoraster -rwxr-xr-x root/root 3561 2012-01-30 01:21 ./usr/lib/cups/filter/textonly -rwxr-xr-x root/root 34120 2012-01-30 01:41 ./usr/lib/cups/filter/imagetopdf -rwxr-xr-x root/root 21968 2012-01-30 01:41 ./usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops # grep texttops /etc/cups/mine.convs application/x-cshell application/postscript 33 texttops application/x-csource application/postscript 33 texttops application/x-perl application/postscript 33 texttops application/x-shell application/postscript 33 texttops text/plain application/postscript 33 texttops text/html application/postscript 33 texttops This is Extremely Not Okay, thus the high severity level. grave: "makes the package in question unusable or mostly so" <rant> Have I also mentioned that cups error reporting (or, more specifically, the catastrophic lack of it) is a festering reeking maggot-ridden mountain of suppurating shit? You'd think it would be easy enough to log an error message like "execve: /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops: No such file or directory" to bestow upon the humble sysadmin a clue as to *why* the document format is not supported. But no, all I get is: D [01/Feb/2012:14:35:11 +0000] Send-Document ipp://localhost:631/printers/lablp D [01/Feb/2012:14:35:11 +0000] cupsdIsAuthorized: requesting-user-name="$USER" D [01/Feb/2012:14:35:11 +0000] [Job 138052] Auto-typing file... D [01/Feb/2012:14:35:11 +0000] [Job 138052] Request file type is text/plain. D [01/Feb/2012:14:35:11 +0000] Send-Document client-error-document-format-not-supported: Unsupported document-format "text/plain". E [01/Feb/2012:14:35:11 +0000] Returning IPP client-error-document-format-not-supported for Send-Document (ipp://localhost:631/printers/lablp) from localhost D [01/Feb/2012:14:35:11 +0000] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Dirty files", busy="Active clients and dirty files" D [01/Feb/2012:14:35:11 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 17 WAITING Closing on EOF D [01/Feb/2012:14:35:11 +0000] cupsdCloseClient: 17 D [01/Feb/2012:14:35:11 +0000] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Dirty files", busy="Dirty files" ... leaving me to grovel though the configuration files and figure out not just which step of cups' byzantine internal processes is not working, but what those steps are in the first place! There should be a log message somewhere explaining the sequence of filters that cups chooses to apply, and detailed error output if any of them fail. Maybe I could just go back to lprng + magicfilter... </rant> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
