[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#619461: Bug#619461: cups-pdf: PDFVer and GSCall keys not taken into account

[Martin-Éric Racine]

2011/3/24 Volker Behr <behr at physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>:
> The log-file you sent me contains the following line:
>
> Thu Mar 24 11:05:53 2011  [DEBUG] file already pdf, simply copying it
> (cp /var/spool/cups-pdf/SPOOL/cups2pdf-12256 /home/jpht/tmp/PDF/Bugs_in_package_cups-pdf_--_Debian_Bug_report_logs.pdf)
>
> This option to directly copy PDF instead of reprocessing it was
> suggested to me some time back and I decided not to implement it since
> it would disable all options set in cups-pdf.conf on the respective
> files. This is exactly what happens to you here: the PDF is just passed
> through instead of getting re-worked with all your desired options by
> CUPS-PDF.
>
> So, speaking for upstream: no fix needed.
> My advise to the distribution: remove this additional patch on CUPS-PDF
> since it breaks basic functionality.

The patch in question was removed in 2.5.1-1 as far as Debian and
Ubuntu are concerned:

* Dropped 70_cups-pdf_support-pdf-workflow.patch
    + This patch has received more criticism than praises from the end-users,
      because it essentially renders the Ghostscript options in cups-pdf.conf
      useless, plus it no longer applies cleanly to the upstream code.