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Bug#562236: marked as done (cups-driver-gutenprint: Missing /usr/lib/cups/backend/canon)

Your message dated Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:46:15 +0000
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and subject line Re: Bug#562236: cups-driver-gutenprint: Missing /usr/lib/cups/backend/canon
has caused the Debian Bug report #562236,
regarding cups-driver-gutenprint: Missing /usr/lib/cups/backend/canon
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Package: cups-driver-gutenprint
Version: 5.2.4-1
Severity: important


After a system upgrade, my CUPS installation was failing to print to my
Canon i560 inkjet, complaining that it could not find
/usr/lib/cups/backend/canon.  I noticed that the canon and epson backend
files have disappeared in Squeeze.  Copying the offending file manually from
the Lenny deb into my /usr/lib/cups/backend directory and deleting/adding
the printer solved the problem.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (100, 'experimental'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.5 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cups-driver-gutenprint depends on:
ii  cups                   1.4.1-4           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  cups-client            1.4.1-4           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  ghostscript-cups       8.70~dfsg-2+b1    The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  libc6                  2.10.1-7          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcups2               1.4.1-4           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsimage2          1.4.1-4           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libgcrypt11            1.4.4-5           LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libgnutls26            2.8.5-2           the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgpg-error0          1.6-1             library for common error values an
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.7dfsg~beta3-1   MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libgutenprint2         5.2.4-1           runtime for the Gutenprint printer
ii  libjpeg62              6b-15             The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.40-1          PNG library - runtime
ii  libtasn1-3             2.3-1             Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libtiff4               3.9.2-1           Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  perl                   5.10.1-8          Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

cups-driver-gutenprint recommends no packages.

Versions of packages cups-driver-gutenprint suggests:
pn  gutenprint-doc                <none>     (no description available)
pn  gutenprint-locales            <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 08:07:08PM -0800, Mark A. Haun wrote:
> Package: cups-driver-gutenprint
> Version: 5.2.4-1
> Severity: important
> 
> After a system upgrade, my CUPS installation was failing to print to my
> Canon i560 inkjet, complaining that it could not find
> /usr/lib/cups/backend/canon.  I noticed that the canon and epson backend
> files have disappeared in Squeeze.  Copying the offending file manually from
> the Lenny deb into my /usr/lib/cups/backend directory and deleting/adding
> the printer solved the problem.

Both the epson and canon backends are obsolete: their functionality
is now provided by the standard cups "parallel", "usb" and "socket"
backends (the epson and canon backends did all three).

Unfortunately, it wasn't possible to safely upgrade the existing
canon or epson backend-using queues to use the correct parallel
or usb backend due to them using a different URI syntax (usb
uses libusb device names using the IEEE 1284 device IDs rather
than /dev device node names).

I would recommend modifying your print queue to use the standard
cups backend appropriate for your printer, and delete the backends
you copied from the Lenny .deb--they are not the best solution to
your problem!

Please see the upstream README, which fully documents this issue.
(/usr/share/doc/cups-driver-gutenprint/README.gz).


Regards,
Roger

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