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Bug#319093: marked as done (cupsys: printers sometimes stop working after upgrade (ppds not refreshed))

Your message dated Sun, 1 Jun 2008 23:09:06 +0200
with message-id <20080601210906.GB6509@piware.de>
and subject line Cleaning up old bug reports
has caused the Debian Bug report #319093,
regarding cupsys: printers sometimes stop working after upgrade (ppds not refreshed)
to be marked as done.

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--- Begin Message --- 
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

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
Dear bug submitter,

This bug was reported against a very old version of cups (older than
in the current stable Debian version "Etch"). About a year ago,
Martin-Eric Racine asked for feedback whether the bug still applied to
the current Debian Etch version, but we did not get any feedback. In
order to not keep around old, hardware-specific, and inactive bugs
around forever, I close this bug now.

Please report back if you still experience the problem with the
current version in Etch; if you can test Lenny/unstable, that would be
highly appreciated, of course. I will reopen this bug then.

Thank you for your report!

Martin
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Martin Pitt                        | http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com)  | Debian Developer  (www.debian.org)

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