[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#650068: Bug#650068: cups-pdf: PDF created are all void without error notice

[Martin-Éric Racine]

2011/11/26 Eric Lavarde <bugs.debian.nospam at lavar.de>:
> Package: cups-pdf
> Version: 2.6.1-3
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> Hello,
>
> after having migrated from squeeze to wheezy, cups-pdf does only produce
> minimal PDF files without any content. I tried different apps
> (Iceweasel, LibreOffice) without apparent difference in (bad) behavior.
> The PDFs created do only differentiate in terms of IDs and dates/times
> else they are completely the same; I'll attach an example.
> I have also set the report level to debug and will also attach the
> logfile but I don't see anything noticeable.
>
> I'm at loss what to do but currently cups-pdf is not usable at all for
> me, hence the high severity.

I'm pretty sure that we had resolved this issue when we introduced
automatic updating of PPD files. However, Debian has taken the habit
of heavily modifying CUPS, which often breaks CUPS-PDF. Let's see if
other CUPS maintainers might know the cause.

Martin-Éric