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On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 02:02:00PM -0500, Moshe Yudkowsky wrote: > >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. This is believed to be a bug in cups. More accurately: this is multiple bugs spread across ghostscript and cups, but the main one is that cups should change its dependencies - but since the ghostscript breakage was requested by the cups package maintainer, and since the bug affects only post-Lenny releases of cups, I see no reason to track the ghostscript bug. Kind regards, and thanks for reporting this, - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEAREDAAYFAkoz4qMACgkQn7DbMsAkQLiE6gCfdjXBlaaf/Q6fCHNH2fYPKIg0 j+gAn3EmhBcgJRlBOqjyud6mFL0WFF7p =wOdR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
