Bug#826543: cupsd fails to remove job files at end of PreserveJobFiles interval
On Sun 10 Nov 2019 at 16:27:42 +0000, Sergio Gelato wrote:
> Thank you for your reply. The issue I reported is distinct from
> upstream #5538 or Debian #921741 but the upstream patch does indeed
> seem to incorporate my suggested fix; I assume upstream independently
> spotted the same problem. Note that the original fix for #5538 had a
> misplaced right parenthesis, corrected in
> [53cac1d08bba395942df638d74526470c9fc7975] Fix parentheses in cupsdCleanJobs
The fix for this is in unstable.
> The latter patch is not in buster yet. (I should probably cherry-pick
> it for local use if you won't issue an update for buster.)
>
> As for testing again, the issue doesn't seem easy to trigger to begin
> with. I had deployed my suggested fix locally on jessie but not on
> stretch, and it hasn't come back to bite us. (I'm not saying it was
> never triggered, only that the spool never filled up again as a
> result. Unrelated changes to our printing infrastructure --- we no
> longer run a central CUPS server --- have probably helped.
You appear to have the issue under control at your end, so, unless
you wish to take your distinct issue upsteam, I am not sure where we
are going. As far as triaging is concerned, I am not happy to work
on something I cannot reproduce here; it does not make life easy.
Reagrds,
Brian.
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