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Package: cups
Version: 2.3.3op2-3+deb11u1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: alainbe@free.fr
Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
* What led up to the situation?
I upgraded for Buster to Bullseye
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Requesting any kind of printing
* What was the outcome of this action?
no printing
* What outcome did you expect instead?
printing documents to my LBP113 printer
Printing completely stopped working after upgrading to Bullseye though I strictly followed the guidelines
for upgrading. The message was "filter failed" and the logs showed that Ghostscript was returning a error.
Installing libcupsimage2 solved the problem. I suggest that libscupsimage2 should be a dependancy of cups.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
APT prefers stable-security
APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-rt-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii cups-client 2.3.3op2-3+deb11u1
ii cups-common 2.3.3op2-3+deb11u1
ii cups-core-drivers 2.3.3op2-3+deb11u1
ii cups-daemon 2.3.3op2-3+deb11u1
ii cups-filters 1.28.7-1
ii cups-ppdc 2.3.3op2-3+deb11u1
ii cups-server-common 2.3.3op2-3+deb11u1
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.77
ii ghostscript 9.53.3~dfsg-7
ii libavahi-client3 0.8-5
ii libavahi-common3 0.8-5
ii libc6 2.31-13
ii libcups2 2.3.3op2-3+deb11u1
ii libgcc-s1 10.2.1-6
ii libstdc++6 10.2.1-6
ii libusb-1.0-0 2:1.0.24-3
ii poppler-utils 20.09.0-3.1
ii procps 2:3.3.17-5
Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii avahi-daemon 0.8-5
ii colord 1.4.5-3
Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii cups-bsd 2.3.3op2-3+deb11u1
pn cups-pdf <none>
pn foomatic-db-compressed-ppds | foomatic-db <none>
pn smbclient <none>
ii udev 247.3-6
-- debconf information:
cupsys/backend: lpd, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd
cupsys/raw-print: true
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Thank yo for your report, Alain.
On Mon 23 Aug 2021 at 13:13:16 +0200, Alain Bertrand wrote:
> Printing completely stopped working after upgrading to Bullseye though
> I strictly followed the guidelines for upgrading. The message was
We hope that included reading the printing and scanning advice in the
Release Notes. Please ask if you are unsure of anything.
> "filter failed" and the logs showed that Ghostscript was returning a
> error. Installing libcupsimage2 solved the problem. I suggest that
> libscupsimage2 should be a dependancy of cups.
These are the packages that depend on libscupsimage2:
brian@desktop:~$ apt rdepends libcupsimage2
libcupsimage2
Reverse Depends:
Depends: libcupsimage2-dev (= 2.2.10-6+deb10u4)
Depends: printer-driver-splix (>= 1.4.0)
Depends: printer-driver-ptouch (>= 1.4.0)
Depends: printer-driver-hpcups (>= 1.4.0)
Depends: printer-driver-gutenprint (>= 1.4.0)
Depends: printer-driver-escpr (>= 1.4.0)
Depends: printer-driver-dymo (>= 1.4.0)
Depends: libcupsfilters1 (>= 1.4.0)
Depends: cups-filters-core-drivers (>= 1.4.0)
Depends: cups-filters (>= 1.4.0)
Depends: libgs9 (>= 1.4.0)
Depends: cups-client (>= 1.4.0)
Depends: cups (>= 1.4.0)
Depends: printer-driver-c2esp (>= 1.4.0)
Depends: printer-driver-brlaser (>= 1.4.0)
brian@desktop:~$
Installing any of these packages would pull in libscupsimage2.
AFAICT, it is impossible for the printing system to function without
having libscupsimage2 on the system. Whatever your issue was (is?),
it wasn't with dependencies.
Regards,
Brian.
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