Bug#843114: cups-filters: cups changes shared printers with underscores (_) in their names to dashes (-)
Package: cups-filters
Version: 1.0.61-5+deb8u3
Severity: important
Tags: newcomer
Dear Maintainer,
Printers shared from other cups systems with _ in their names appear with the name changed so all underscores '_' become dashes '-'.
There is a similar bug-report in rhel7 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1230862) solved by an update.
> Our EL7 clients are using cups-browsed to discover printers shared
> from our central EL7 cups server. Most of our queues have underscores
> in their names, and for some reason cups-browsed is changing the
> underscores to dashes. This breaks the queues for our EL7 clients.
I think this same fix should be applied to jessie. This causes serious breakage when printer names are saved
in work processes or applications, or when users move between systems. (wheezy does not have the bug)
* What led up to the situation?
Upgraded a server from wheezy to jessie. Printing in our in-house application stopped working.
Investigation found that the printers in jessie all had the wrong name (ZZ2-office-2844) instead of correct name (ZZ2_office_2844)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.6
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages cups-filters depends on:
ii bc 1.06.95-9
ii cups-filters-core-drivers 1.0.61-5+deb8u3
ii ghostscript 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u4
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u6
ii libcups2 1.7.5-11+deb8u1
ii libcupsfilters1 1.0.61-5+deb8u3
ii libcupsimage2 1.7.5-11+deb8u1
ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.3+deb8u1
ii libfontembed1 1.0.61-5+deb8u3
ii libgcc1 1:4.9.2-10
ii libijs-0.35 0.35-10
ii liblcms2-2 2.6-3+b3
ii libpoppler46 0.26.5-2+deb8u1
ii libqpdf13 5.1.2-2
ii libstdc++6 4.9.2-10
Versions of packages cups-filters recommends:
ii colord 1.2.1-1+b2
Versions of packages cups-filters suggests:
pn foomatic-db-compressed-ppds | foomatic-db <none>
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