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

[Jean-Philippe Thierry]

Hi,


2011/3/24 Volker Behr <behr at physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>

>
>
> On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 17:54 +0100, Jean-Philippe Thierry wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Le 24 mars 2011 15:44, Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine at iki.fi>
> > a écrit :
> >         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.
> >
> >         From this perspective, I'd mark the issue as fixed since that
> >         version. Agreed?
> >
> >         Martin-Éric
> >
> > just tried installing cups-pdf from sid on my squeeze. GSCall and
> > PDFVer are taken into acount but... I am only getting 1 page empty
> > documents; even failling back to the default settings
> > in /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf. Could it be due to a dependency issue even
> > if not raised by the package?
> >
> > log file attached
> >
> Just as a note:
>
> might be related to issue #617468
>
>
>
> I end up recompiling the package from source (squeeze version) removing
patch 70_cups-pdf_support-pdf-
workflow.patch and it works.

Thanks folks for your help.

-- 
Jean-Philippe
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