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Bug#926836: libgs9 and libgs9-common 9.27~dfsg-1 break printing: 'Printer State:' is 'Idle - Filter failed'



control: reassign -1 cups-filters
control: forcemerge 926576 -1

Quoting Rob Oosterling (2019-04-11 09:28:16)
> After upgrading to said version, printing stops working (Brother HL-1430).
> 
> Error message:  'Printer State:' is 'Idle - Filter failed'.
> 
>  From Cups error log:
> 
> GPL Ghostscript 9.27: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
> Process is dying with \"Unable to determine number of pages, page count: -1
> \", exit stat 3
> 
> 
> Reverting to version libgs9_9.26a~dfsg-2_amd64 and 
> libgs9-common_9.26a~dfsg-2_all resolved the issue.

cups-filters is ultimately to blame for this: It relied on undocumented
pseudo-postscript calls recently removed from Ghostscript because they 
turned out to cause security issues.

The bug should be fixed in a recent update to cups-filters.

Thanks for reporting.  Next time you file a bugreport, it helps if you 
try check for existing bugs first, including bugs that "affects" the 
package you intend to file a bug against.

Regards,

 - Jonas

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