Bug#911844: okular: Prints to the wrong printer
On Tue 11 Jun 2019 at 13:20:40 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Brian Potkin - 11.06.19, 10:42:
> > On Tue 11 Jun 2019 at 09:53:50 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> […]
> > > Two ways to use your (and our) time in a more productive manner are:
> > >
> > > 1) Retest with Okular 18.04 from Debian experimental (in case you
> > > run
> > > buster/sid). Or start KDE Neon in a machine and try with the newest
> > > Okular available there.
> >
> > There might be time for me to do both of these today or tomorrow.
>
> Wonderful.
And good fun.
I used the neon-user-20190606-1138.iso (okular 19.04.1). Everything
behaved normally. No observed bug there. Okular 18.04 from experimental
wouldn't install because of unmet depenencies. Another time, perhaps.
> > > 2) Remind upstream in a friendly way to have a look at the issue.
> > > Once there is a patch upstream it is very likely it could be
> > > backported for buster. Maybe it would be an idea to raise the
> > > upstream bug to KDE's security team.
> >
> > You seem to have done that. Thanks.
>
> Yes, appeared to be the quickest way to more this forward for me.
>
> There is a reply by Albert already. He is member of KDE security team
> and AFAIK also develops on Okular. Please review his comments there and
> answer accordingly. It appears he does not yet understand on how to
> reproduce. Maybe, if you can, give a concrete example with the necessary
> CUPS commands or probably an example configuration file.
I will reply to the upstream bug report later.
The various contributions to this report are appreciated. I have learnt
a thing or two.
Regards,
Brian.
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