Bug#715448: cups-filters: pdftopdf segfaults

[Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net>]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 04:01:22PM +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:
> On Tue 09 Jul 2013 at 14:11:47 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:
> 
> > However, the Gutenprint and postscript driver both worked to produce
> > an expected output in /tmp. This is reason enough to question whether
> 
> No they didn't! I really should have checked the error log rather than
> just the file types in /tmp and their sizes. The file from Gutenprint
> was rather small, which also should have prompted me to look at the
> logs. So pdftopdf crashes with the three PPDs. On the bright side,
> textttopdf works and the rendering completed with no errors. :)
> 
> Choosing a few random PPDs gives the same error. Back to 'grave' it, but
> more testing wouldn't do any harm.

Did you get my other message where I said printing works
after rebuilding the package locally?  I'm not sure
if it is worth it to track down which change in which
library broke it.  I don't print often so I can't tell
when the issue started.

The network printer actually printed a page with an
error message from the filter pipeline (something
about unable to open device), so I wasted a few pages
before I had the idea to test with cups-PDF.
There is always lots of cursing when CUPS breaks ;-)


Thanks,
Johannes