[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#605434: narrowed it down to version 1.4.4-5

[Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.]

Using the debian snapshot repository, I have narrowed the issue down to
the breakage occurring in version 1.4.4-5 as version 1.4.4-4 works.
There are only two changes in that version according to the changelog:

cups (1.4.4-5) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * ubuntu-upstart.dpatch: Drop the dependency "on starting smbd", it
causes
    samba to hang on package upgrades or manual restarts. There doesn't
seem
    to be a good way to express this dependency right now. (LP: #639768)
    Instead, send a SIGHUP to smbd if it is running, which causes it to
reload
    printers.

  [ Till Kamppeter ]
  * pstops-based-workflow-only-for-printing-ps-on-a-ps-printer.dpatch:
    Let CUPS use the former PostScript-based filter chain only if the
input
    file is PostScript and the printer is a PostScript printer with
    manufacturer-supplied PPD file. This avoids ugly PS->PDF->PS
conversions
    which are bad for the performance and sometimes cause issues
    (Closes: #593338, requested by Ricoh).

 -- Martin Pitt <mpitt at debian.org>  Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:57:06 +0200


It looks like the second change by Till Kamppeter is what killed the
ps-print from emacs.  I don't know if this is an emacs or cups problem.
I am suspecting a cups problem.  I had forgotten about this bug when I
submitted bug report 623612 for emacs.  Version 1.4.4-5 is the first
version I get the errors on the printout itself as described in the
initial bug report.  It is also the first version that I get an error in
the cups log:

E [21/Apr/2011:13:29:52 -0400] [Job 6] No %%BoundingBox: comment in
header!