Bug#265398: Openoffice.org: CUPS printer device options missing probably because spadmin fills /etc/openoffice/psprint.conf

[Olivier <olivier@quzqo.net>]

Followup-For: Bug #254239
Package: openoffice.org
Version: 1.1.2-2, 1.1.2-3
Severity: normal

CUPS printer device options missing, except on first execution of the 
tool spadmin.

After a clean install, /etc/openoffice/psprint.conf is empty and spadmin 
gives all specific device options for a CUPS' printer (retrieved from 
CUPS server I guess).
But, the second time, psprint.conf is filled with some default options, 
like the following :

[deskjet]
Printer=CUPS:deskjet/deskjet
DefaultPrinter=1
Location=
Comment=
Command=
Features=
Copies=1
Scale=100
Orientation=Portrait
PSLevel=0
ColorDevice=0
ColorDepth=24
MarginAdjust=0,0,0,0
PerformFontSubstitution=true

and no previous specific device options are available. I mean : no 
"Paper size", no specific in "Device" Tab, ...

I tried to remove the file /etc/openoffice/psprint.conf and 'spadmin' 
acts as expected (i.e all specific device options available again) but 
even if I chmod 000 this file, it is rewritten with default options 
again at the first use.

This Happens if I launch oowriter, oocalc (and others I presume) too. I 
can view or change specific device options each time in "printers 
options" and print with an empty file psprint.conf. But if I validate 
the printer's properties dialog box in 'spadmin', I can't neither access 
to these options nor print any document : nothing happens (even without 
root access to spadmin, the file psprint.conf is created by spadmin, but 
unwritable).

So, no 'spadmin' for the moment...

Cheers,
Olivier.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1

Versions of packages openoffice.org depends on:
ii dictionaries-common 0.22.30.1 Common utilities for spelling dict
ii openoffice.org-bin 1.1.2-3 OpenOffice.org office suite binary
ii openoffice.org-debian-files 1.1.2-3+1 Debian specific parts of OpenOffic
ii openoffice.org-l10n-en 1.1.2-3 English (US) language package for
ii openoffice.org-l10n-fr 1.1.2-3 French language package for OpenOf
ii ttf-opensymbol 1.1.2-2 The OpenSymbol TrueType font

PS: Happens on another stable/testing workstation too with different 
printers.

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