Bug#600447: Non UTF8/En locales bug reappeared (renders hplip useless for non US/UTF8 users)
Package: hplip
Version: 3.10.6-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch
In 3.10.6-1 there is still a serious issue with CUPS *requiring* either
an US-ASCII locale, or a UTF8 locale. As a consequence, all programs
communicating with CUPS to discuver printers/install printers, and the
like, fail miserably with errors of various kind, like hp-setup not
finding the printer (#515720), or not finding the proper PPD files, hp-clean
complaining that there is no printer, etc.
These extra errors *all* come from the inability of the hplip tools
to communicate properly with CUPS, because the locale forces an
encoding of the messages in a format that CUPS refuses to interpret.
According to what is said in #471228, CUPS is not going to change this
behaviour, so hplip needs to do either:
* be patched to convert everything to UTF8 no matter what the user's
locale is, as done in hplip-2.8.12-force-utf8.patch submitted by
Tiago Salem Herrmann (ref: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/162196)
that was used in 3.9.2, but is gone in 3.10.6-1
* or at least pop up a warning box if it detects a non UTF8 locale
telling the user that it will not work with CUPS without an UTF8 locale
(and saving the user, the Debian maintainers, and a lot of other
people a sizeable amount of time)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages hplip depends on:
ii adduser 3.112 add and remove users and groups
ii coreutils 8.5-1 GNU core utilities
ii cups 1.4.4-3 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii cups-client 1.4.4-3 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii hplip-cups 3.10.6-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - CU
ii hplip-data 3.10.6-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - da
ii libc6 2.11.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcups2 1.4.4-3 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libhpmud0 3.10.6-1 HP Multi-Point Transport Driver (h
ii libsane 1.0.21-4 API library for scanners
ii libsane-hpaio 3.10.6-1 HP SANE backend for multi-function
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8o-2 SSL shared libraries
ii lsb-base 3.2-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii policykit-1 0.96-3 framework for managing administrat
ii python 2.6.5-13 interactive high-level object-orie
ii python-dbus 0.83.1-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii python-imaging 1.1.7-2 Python Imaging Library
ii python-pexpect 2.3-1 Python module for automating inter
ii python-support 1.0.10 automated rebuilding support for P
Versions of packages hplip recommends:
ii avahi-daemon 0.6.25-1 Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon
ii sane-utils 1.0.21-4 API library for scanners -- utilit
Versions of packages hplip suggests:
pn hplip-doc <none> (no description available)
ii hplip-gui 3.10.6-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - GU
ii kdeprint 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6+lenny1 print system for KDE
ii python-notify 0.1.1-2+b2 Python bindings for libnotify
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