Package: cupsys Version: 1.2.2-1 Severity: important
The current version of CUPS in Etch doesn't seem to pick up the paper size from printers on other CUPS servers. Although the CUPS server has them configured with A4 paper, remote workstations running Etch always try to use them as if they had letter-sized paper. I thought at first that this was a problem between different versions of CUPS, as the main print server on our network is running Sarge and CUPS version 1.1.23-10sarge. Sarge workstations get the paper size right but Etch workstations get it wrong. However, I've now done some further tests and it seems to be a fundamental problem with CUPS 1.2.2-1 accessing remote printers on another CUPS server. I took two Etch workstations, each of which was getting the paper size wrong for printers accessed on the main print server. I attached a printer to each of these workstations and configured them (through CUPS) as local printers with A4 sized paper. Attempting to print to either printer on the workstation to which it is attached correctly brings up A4 as the paper size. However, I then changed the CUPS settings on each of the workstations to make the new printers available to other machines on the network. Each workstation quickly added the other's printer to its list of available printers, but attempting to print to them always brings up "Letter" as the preferred paper size, despite them both being set to A4. Each instance of CUPS seems to be respecting the paper size configuration when accessing a local printer, but ignoring it and using Letter instead when accessing a remote CUPS printer. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-amtrak1 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB) Versions of packages cupsys depends on: ii adduser 3.95 Add and remove users and groups ii cupsys-common 1.2.2-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.2 Debian configuration management sy ii gs-esp 8.15.1.dfsg.1-2 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr ii libacl1 2.2.41-1 Access control list shared library ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcupsimage2 1.2.2-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libcupsys2 1.2.2-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libdbus-1-2 0.62-4 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgnutls13 1.4.1-1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libldap2 2.1.30-13+b1 OpenLDAP libraries ii libpam0g 0.79-3.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpaper1 1.1.19 Library for handling paper charact ii libslp1 1.2.1-5 OpenSLP libraries ii lsb-base 3.1-10 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii patch 2.5.9-4 Apply a diff file to an original ii perl-modules 5.8.8-4 Core Perl modules ii poppler-utils [xpdf-util 0.4.5-4.1 PDF utilitites (based on libpopple ii procps 1:3.2.7-2 /proc file system utilities ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime Versions of packages cupsys recommends: ii cupsys-client 1.2.2-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii foomatic-filters 3.0.2-20060712-1 linuxprinting.org printer support pn smbclient <none> (no description available) -- debconf information: cupsys/raw-print: true cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, socket, usb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]