Bug#886224: printer-driver-cups-pdf: Virtual pdf printer error: no output and config problem

[Rudolf Polzer <Rudolf.Polzer@i-r-p.de>]

Package: printer-driver-cups-pdf
Version: 3.0.1-4
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages printer-driver-cups-pdf depends on:
ii  cups            2.2.6-4
ii  cups-client     2.2.6-4
ii  ghostscript     9.22~dfsg-1
ii  libc6           2.25-6
ii  libcups2        2.2.6-4
ii  libpaper-utils  1.1.24+nmu5

printer-driver-cups-pdf recommends no packages.

Versions of packages printer-driver-cups-pdf suggests:
pn  system-config-printer  <none>

-- no debconf information


Bug description:

The cups pdf printer produces no pdf output file.

After deleting the pdf printer, the add printer function does not work as expected:
After selecting "Generic" as printer make, no pdf printer model is selectable.
I instead selected one of the existing ppd files in /usr/share/ppd/cups-pdf
but this did not make the pdf printer work.

The bug started by my recent update from cups-pdf, where pdf printing did work,
to printer-driver-cups-pdf.