Bug#995149: cups-filters: Printing sometimes fails due to log message in PS output.

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

On Mon 27 Sep 2021 at 09:06:50 +0200, Daniel Höpfl wrote:

> Package: cups-filters
> Version: 1.28.7-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: upstream patch
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian@hoepfl.de

Thank you for your report, Daniel.
 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> TL;DR: There is a upstream bug/patch that solves the issue.
> See <https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/issues/422>
> 
> When printing some PDF files, using the Debian server as a remote print queue, foomatic-rip sometimes produces an error message "Invalid page range: ...". This message is sent to stdout instead of the log file.
> 
> Due to this log message, the PostScript that is sent to stdout contains invalid command sequences.
> 
> The patch for upstream solves this issue.
> 
> I verified it by replacing the 'I' of the message in the foomatic-rip binary with a '\0'
> 
> I verified that the bug has not been fixed in the source of the testing/unstable branches:
> 
> filter/foomatic-rip/options.c:            printf("Invalid page range: %s\n", tok);
> 
> Please note that the very same error also applies to the foomatic-filters package.

Fixed in cup-filters V1.28.11. Closing in the present version.

Cheers,

Brian.