Bug#371870: Printing from firefox and galeon also does not work

[Uwe Storbeck <uwe@ibr.ch>]

Hi

> The xprint package has been removed from Debian testing, unstable and
experimental, so I am now closing the bugs that were still opened
against it.

May I ask about the status of this package? I still see it in lenny and
sid:

  $ apt-cache policy xprint
  xprint:
    Installed: 2:1.4.2-10
    Candidate: 2:1.4.2-10
    Version table:
   *** 2:1.4.2-10 0
          850 http://http.us.debian.org lenny/main Packages
          650 http://http.us.debian.org sid/main Packages

Unfortunately mozilla is gone from debian which should mean I can close
this bug. But now the printers are also gone in firefox and galeon (not
sure if it worked before with galeon as I stopped using it long ago).
No way left to print from a browser directly. The only possibility left
is printing to a file from firefox (which is not really satisfying).

The xprint.mozdev.org page explicitly lists firefox as an application
which supports xprint. When I try to print with galeon it redirects me
to the xprint.mozdev.org page in it's error message which suggests that
it also supports xprint.

So do firefox and galeon on debian (lenny) still support xprint?


According to the verification procedure at
http://xprint.mozdev.org/installation.html my xprint system works:

  $ ps ax|grep Xprt
   5293 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/Xprt -ac -pn -nolisten tcp -audit 4 -fp /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/dosemu :64

  $ echo $XPSERVERLIST 
  :64

  $ xplsprinters
  printer: xlp@:64
  printer: us@:64
  printer: lp@:64
  printer: hplj@:64
  printer: color@:64
  printer: xp_ps_spooldir_HOME_Xprintjobs@:64

  $ xplsprinters -l | egrep "^printer:|model-identifier="
  printer: xlp@:64
	  model-identifier=PSdefault
  printer: us@:64
	  model-identifier=PSdefault
  printer: lp@:64
	  model-identifier=PSdefault
  printer: hplj@:64
	  model-identifier=PSdefault
  printer: color@:64
	  model-identifier=PSdefault
  printer: xp_ps_spooldir_HOME_Xprintjobs@:64
	  model-identifier=PSspooldir

  $ xphelloworld -printer xlp

The last command prints a sheet of paper with "hello world from X11
print system".

Does this mean xprint is working correctly at all and this bug should
be reassigned to both firefox and galeon?

Regards

Uwe