[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#556018: cups: no longer shows jobs for a specific queue
John Pearson
johnp at gtagalenco.com.au
Fri Nov 13 05:30:48 UTC 2009
Package: cups
Version: 1.3.8-1+lenny7
Severity: normal
Before the most recent security update, you could view details of
all/active/completed jobs in the web interface by selecting the
"printers" tab, clicking on the printer in question and clicking
pn "Show Completed jobs", "Show All Jobs" and so on. This is no
longer the case: clicking on these buttons now displays jobs for
all printer queues, rather than just the selected printer.
The buttons in question used to have URLs like
"http://server:631/printers/queuename?which_jobs=completed"
whereas they now have URLs like
"http://server:631/jobs?which_jobs=completed". Typing the "old"
URLs in by hand still works.
While this is of little consequence for most home desktop users,
it's a significant loss of usability for servers supporting many queues,
particularly if you're looking at a queue that handels a relatively low
volume of jobs.
This issue also appears in version 1.2.7-4+etch9 of the oldstable "cupsys"
package so I assume it's related to the security fixes for
CVE-2009-2820, but it seems like an unfortunate (and, I assume, avoidable)
loss of functionality.
Thanks,
John.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
APT prefers proposed-updates
APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-openvz-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups
ii cups-common 1.3.8-1+lenny7 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii debconf [debcon 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy
ii ghostscript 8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii libavahi-compat 0.6.23-3lenny1 Avahi Apple Bonjour compatibility
ii libc6 2.7-18lenny1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcups2 1.3.8-1+lenny7 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libcupsimage2 1.3.8-1+lenny7 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-5+lenny1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgnutls26 2.4.2-6+lenny1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.11-1 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libpam0g 1.0.1-5+lenny1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpaper1 1.1.23+nmu1 library for handling paper charact
ii libslp1 1.2.1-7.5 OpenSLP libraries
ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii perl-modules 5.10.0-19lenny2 Core Perl modules
ii poppler-utils [ 0.8.7-2 PDF utilitites (based on libpopple
ii procps 1:3.2.7-11 /proc file system utilities
ii ssl-cert 1.0.23 simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL
Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii avahi-utils 0.6.23-3lenny1 Avahi browsing, publishing and dis
ii cups-client 1.3.8-1+lenny7 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii foomatic-filters 3.0.2-20080211-3.2 OpenPrinting printer support - fil
ii smbclient 2:3.2.5-4lenny7 a LanManager-like simple client fo
Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii cups-bsd 1.3.8-1+lenny7 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii cups-driver-gutenprint 5.0.2-4 printer drivers for CUPS
ii cups-pdf 2.4.8-3 PDF printer for CUPS
ii foomatic-db 20080211-2+nmu1 OpenPrinting printer support - dat
ii foomatic-db-engine 3.0.2-20080211-1 OpenPrinting printer support - pro
ii hplip 2.8.6.b-4 HP Linux Printing and Imaging Syst
pn xpdf-korean | xpdf-japa <none> (no description available)
-- debconf information:
cupsys/raw-print: true
cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, socket, usb
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