Package: ghostscript-cups Version: 8.64~dfsg-10 Severity: important I can't determine if the this is "serious" or "grave," but it did render my system unusable. After an ordinary "aptitude safe-upgrade" my cups system would not print. All attempts to print to my printer received an error message "Unsupported format 'application/postscript.'"
I embarked on a systematic review of all packages related to cups and ghostscript. I discovered when reading the "aptitude show" output of gs-gpl that it was deprecated package. Reading its changelog I discovered a mention of ghostscript-cups. In other words, whatever migration should have happened automatically failed to do so. Installing ghostscript-cups and restarting the cups server fixed printing. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages ghostscript-cups depends on: ii cups 1.3.10-2 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii cups-client 1.3.10-2 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii ghostscript 8.64~dfsg-10 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF ii libc6 2.9-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcups2 1.3.10-2 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libcupsimage2 1.3.10-2 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libgnutls26 2.6.6-1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.7dfsg~beta3-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libpng12-0 1.2.37-1 PNG library - runtime ii libtiff4 3.8.2-11 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime ghostscript-cups recommends no packages. ghostscript-cups suggests no packages. -- debconf-show failed -- Moshe Yudkowsky Disaggregate 2952 W Fargo Chicago, IL 60645 USA www.Disaggregate.com [email protected] +1 773 764 8727 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
