Permission problem of PPDs in /etc/cups/ppd/ fixed
Hi,
a long-standing problem of CUPS is that depending on how a print queue
is created or modified the CUPS daemon writes the PPD with different
permissions/ownerships, sometimes world-readable and sometimes not. Some
programs, like the print dialog of Chromium cannot cope with
non-world-readable PPDs.
I have described what happens and fixed it in
https://www.cups.org/str.php?L4703
and I have also committed this patch to the experimental branch (the one
with CUPS 2.1rc1) of the Debian GIT.
This is the actual fix of this Debian bug:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=784271
The bug got marked fixed in error as a change in CUPS came up which made
CUPS itself coping with the varying permissions but the varying
permissions still were there. So my patch is the real fix, but with the
bug already archived I do not know what to do here. Perhaps someone of
you can help.
By the way, can someone of you do a release of the experimental branch
with my fix (2.1~rc1-4) so that I can sync it into Ubuntu Wily? Thanks.
Till
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