Bug#841843: printer-driver-escpr: backend can't find PPD file]

2016-10-28 Thread Brian Potkin
ade the symlink you suggested). Cheers, Brian. - Forwarded message from Brian Potkin - Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 19:19:55 +0100 From: Brian Potkin To: debian-print...@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug#841843: printer-driver-escpr: backend can't find PPD file User-Agent: Mutt/1.5

Bug#841843: printer-driver-escpr: backend can't find PPD file]

2016-10-31 Thread Brian Potkin
tags 841843 moreinfo thanks On Fri 28 Oct 2016 at 14:39:57 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > Many apologies, Matteo. Because I read bug reports in debian-printing I > inadvertently sent the mail below there and not to you or the bug. > > I have tried everything I can think of to re

Bug#841843: printer-driver-escpr: backend can't find PPD file

2016-11-02 Thread Brian Potkin
the system? Please let me know if I am not being clear on what to do. > 2) can't print from another cpus server and a raw queue. Sounds like a different issue. Let's stick with this one for now. > 2016-10-26 19:51 GMT+02:00 Brian Potkin : > > On Wed 26 Oct 2016 at 19:04:5

Bug#841843: printer-driver-escpr: backend can't find PPD file]

2016-11-02 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue 01 Nov 2016 at 23:17:23 +0100, Matteo Croce wrote: > 2016-10-28 15:39 GMT+02:00 Brian Potkin : > > > > Set up a new queue with a different PPD: > > > > lpadmin -p newq -v file:/dev/null -E -m > > escpr:/0/cups/model/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/Epson

Bug#843095: ghostscript: Please consider the patch for LP #1637583

2016-11-03 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: ghostscript Version: 9.19~dfsg-3.1 Severity: wishlist IPP Everywhere is fully supported in Stretch but there is bound to be a hiccup or two. One such is described in LP #1637583 and a fix applied: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups-filters/+bug/1637583 ghostscript (9.1

Bug#843114: cups-filters: cups changes shared printers with underscores (_) in their names to dashes (-)

2016-11-03 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu 03 Nov 2016 at 16:14:18 -0700, Alex Schumann wrote: > Package: cups-filters > Version: 1.0.61-5+deb8u3 > Severity: important > Tags: newcomer > > Dear Maintainer, > > Printers shared from other cups systems with _ in their names appear with the > name changed so all underscores '_' becom

Bug#846620: gnome-control-center: Setting up a local non-raw print queue may not be wise

2016-12-02 Thread Brian Potkin
Source: gnome-control-center Version: 1:3.22.1-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream When choosing to add a printer with "+" or "Add a Printer" the dnssd backend of CUPS is run in discovery mode. Making a selection and activating "Add" causes a local print queue to be set up using a PPD which is on

Bug#846623: gnome-control-center: g-c-c does not display the raw queues of remote CUPS servers

2016-12-02 Thread Brian Potkin
Source: gnome-control-center Version: 1:3.22.1-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream The dnssd backend of CUPS is run in discovery mode as part of g-c-c's effort to locate printers and print queues. It has no problem in discovering raw queues on remote servers but g-c-c does not know about them when

Bug#851499: cups-filters-core-drivers: Everywhere PPD content depends on queue creation method

2017-01-15 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: cups-filters-core-drivers Version: 1.13.2-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream I'm unsure whether this is a bug or a feature. But it is an inconsistency. The everywhere PPD files auto-generated from using the CUPS web interface, system-config-printer and by cups-browsed all have the lines

Bug#851499: cups-filters-core-drivers: Everywhere PPD content depends on queue creation method

2017-01-16 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 15 Jan 2017 at 22:15:49 -0200, Till Kamppeter wrote: > Fixed in cups-filters upstream, BZR rev. 7599. I have built this and copied libcupsfilters to /usr/sbin. > Thank you for the bug report. And thank you for the level of detail. I will find a use for it on a soon to published wiki page

Bug#840129: printer-driver-foo2zjs-common: *.icm files not moved to /usr/share/"$drivername"/icm/

2016-10-08 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: printer-driver-foo2zjs-common Version: 20160902dfsg0-1 Severity: normal (Some blank lines in the output removed) root@test:~# getweb all sihp1000.img (c) Copyright Hewlett-Packard 2001 sihp1005.img (c) Copyright Hewlett-Packard 2002 sihpP1005.img (c) Copyright Hewlett-Packard 2009 sihp1

Bug#820474: cups-filters: texttopdf seg faults if comment in prettyprinted source file ends with keyword

2016-10-10 Thread Brian Potkin
tags 820474 moreinfo thanks On Fri 08 Apr 2016 at 11:45:49 -0700, Jim Uhl wrote: > Dear Maintainer, My status is lower than that, Jim, but thanks for your detailed report and the patch. >* What led up to the situation? > >Occasionally when prettyprinting files using CUPS results in a

Bug#840327: stopped working, no helpful feedback

2016-10-10 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon 10 Oct 2016 at 18:15:15 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > Package: cups > Version: 1.7.5-11+deb8u1 > > Printing had been working fine for a long time but about 20 minutes ago > I tried to print something and an error popup appeared in GNOME asking > if I wanted to diagnose the printer. My doc

Bug#840327: stopped working, no helpful feedback

2016-10-11 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon 10 Oct 2016 at 18:41:46 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > On 10/10/16 18:24, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > Control: tags -1 +moreinfo > > > > Hi Daniel, > > > > Le lundi, 10 octobre 2016, 18.15:15 h CEST Daniel Pocock a écrit : > >> hpcups[16590]: prnt/hpcups/HPCupsFilter.cpp 707: First ras

Bug#840327: stopped working, no helpful feedback

2016-10-11 Thread Brian Potkin
cock wrote: > On 10/10/16 21:22, Brian Potkin wrote: > > > > Printing "working fine" for a long time must indicate something to you. > > Then it stops working. How is this a bug rather than a matter for > > debian-user? Computer systems don't generally

Bug#840327: stopped working, no helpful feedback

2016-10-11 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue 11 Oct 2016 at 11:20:48 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > On 11/10/16 10:16, Brian Potkin wrote: > > > > Please do > > > > avahi-browse -art > filename > > > > and post filename. avahi-browse is in the avahi-utils package. > > > > A

Bug#840327: stopped working, no helpful feedback

2016-10-11 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue 11 Oct 2016 at 12:19:30 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > On 11/10/16 12:02, Brian Potkin wrote: > > [I made a mistake with my previous mail by not sending it to the BTS. > > Because of that your reply didn't go there either. I've rectified the > > bug record by

Bug#840327: stopped working, no helpful feedback

2016-10-13 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue 11 Oct 2016 at 12:19:30 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > >> On 10/10/16 21:22, Brian Potkin wrote: > > > > My view would be that with printing problems users have to be prepared > > to dig into log files, particularly the error_log. Without it a user

Bug#686653: HP Deskjet broken in Wheezy

2016-10-14 Thread Brian Potkin
severity 686653 normal reassign 686653 printer-driver-hpcups merge 686653 768859 thanks On Fri 29 Apr 2016 at 16:00:39 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > found 686653 cups/2.1.3-5 > thanks > > Established a queue with f300_series-hpijs on Jessie. Ugpraded the machine > to unstable.

Bug#832637: More info

2016-09-01 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue 30 Aug 2016 at 23:31:55 +0200, Roderich Schupp wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 6:55 PM, Brian Potkin > wrote: > > > I have no special skills in interpreting strace outputs but this would > > appear to be confirmation that cups-browsed cannot contact cups wh

Bug#833294: connman: Purging the package does not remove all files

2016-09-02 Thread Brian Potkin
On Fri 02 Sep 2016 at 10:57:07 +0200, Alexander Sack wrote: > tags 833294 + moreinfo > severity 833294 normal > thanks > > Hi Brian, Hi Alexander. > what files does connman leave around in var/lib for you? root@test:~# ls -l /var/lib/connman/ total 16 drwx-- 2 root root 4096 Aug 29 19:04 e

Bug#833294: connman: Purging the package does not remove all files

2016-09-02 Thread Brian Potkin
n connman is stopped and started again. Thanks for your consideration and the packaging of conman. Cheers, Brian. > > > 2016-09-02 12:32 GMT+02:00 Brian Potkin : > > On Fri 02 Sep 2016 at 10:57:07 +0200, Alexander Sack wrote: > > > >> tags 833294 + moreinfo

Bug#832637: More info

2016-09-03 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue 30 Aug 2016 at 23:31:55 +0200, Roderich Schupp wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 6:55 PM, Brian Potkin > wrote: > > > I have no special skills in interpreting strace outputs but this would > > appear to be confirmation that cups-browsed cannot contact cups wh

Bug#832637: cups-browsed: Shutdown hangs on A stop job runs for Make remote CUPS printers available locally

2016-09-03 Thread Brian Potkin
tags 832637 moreinfo thanks On Sun 21 Aug 2016 at 17:59:03 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > When next you get the 90s delay the progess of the shutdown is recorded. > Something like > > journalctl --list-boots > > and > > journalctl -b -1 > > should allow you

Bug#832637: More info

2016-09-03 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sat 03 Sep 2016 at 14:12:52 -0300, Till Kamppeter wrote: > The problem is most probably caused by inconsistency in how cups-browsed > accesses the local CUPS daemon, for some accesses it uses the domain socket > (which made it mostly well working in your case) and at other places, > especially

Bug#832637: More info

2016-09-03 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sat 03 Sep 2016 at 19:17:48 -0300, Till Kamppeter wrote: > Brian, thank you very much for the testing. I will do the next (bug fix) > release containing also other fixes (version 1.11.3) most probably on > Monday. > > One question: Did cups-browsed use the socket out-of-the-box or did you need

Bug#815807: cups: printing on printers broadcast by old CUPS versions fails

2016-09-04 Thread Brian Potkin
tags 815807 moreinfo thanks On Sun 28 Aug 2016 at 14:51:42 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Mon 22 Aug 2016 at 19:36:32 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > > > You have duplicate queues being broadcast on the network; is this your > > intention? cups-browsed combines them into

Bug#836955: cups-browsed: Queues do not disappear when deleted on a server.

2016-09-07 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: cups-browsed Version: 1.10.0.1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Server A has a Jessie installation: cups 1.7.5-11+deb8u1 and cups-browsed 1.0.61-5+deb8u3. The services for avahi-daemon are masked and stopped. cups-browsed.conf has BrowseRemoteProtocols none and BrowseLocalProtoc

Bug#815807: cups: printing on printers broadcast by old CUPS versions fails

2016-09-07 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 04 Sep 2016 at 19:23:53 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > tags 815807 moreinfo > thanks > > > On Sun 28 Aug 2016 at 14:51:42 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > > > On Mon 22 Aug 2016 at 19:36:32 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > > > > > You have duplicate queues

Bug#841843: printer-driver-escpr: backend can't find PPD file

2016-10-24 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 23 Oct 2016 at 20:57:07 +0200, Matteo Croce wrote: > Package: printer-driver-escpr > Version: 1.6.8-1 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > I have cups installed on a headless system, but can't print anything. > I ran strace on what the backend does, and it's doing: > > stat("/e

Bug#841843: printer-driver-escpr: backend can't find PPD file

2016-10-24 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon 24 Oct 2016 at 19:46:51 +0200, Matteo Croce wrote: > Hi, > > I attach a clean error_log with loglevel set to debug. > I ran your command, but file.out is empty. This is because the final filter did not complete. > I attach wf2530.log anyway Thanks. I get exactly the same as you. It show

Bug#841843: printer-driver-escpr: backend can't find PPD file

2016-10-25 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon 24 Oct 2016 at 22:58:06 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > My print queue was set up (all on one line) with > > lpadmin -p wf2530 -v file:/home/brian/wf2530 -E > -m > escpr:/0/cups/model/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/Epsom-WF-2530_Series-epson-escpr-en-ppd > > and I p

Bug#841843: printer-driver-escpr: backend can't find PPD file

2016-10-26 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed 26 Oct 2016 at 12:44:57 +0200, Matteo Croce wrote: > Here is my PPD file There is nothing here for us. It works with my setup; it is not corrupted. Back to the drawing board! Cheers, Brian

Bug#841843: printer-driver-escpr: backend can't find PPD file

2016-10-26 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed 26 Oct 2016 at 12:25:36 +0200, Matteo Croce wrote: > 2016-10-24 23:58 GMT+02:00 Brian Potkin : > > On Mon 24 Oct 2016 at 19:46:51 +0200, Matteo Croce wrote: > > My print queue was set up (all on one line) with > > > > lpadmin -p wf2530 -v file:/home/brian/wf25

Bug#841843: printer-driver-escpr: backend can't find PPD file

2016-10-26 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed 26 Oct 2016 at 19:04:56 +0200, Matteo Croce wrote: > 2016-10-26 18:55 GMT+02:00 Brian Potkin : > > On Wed 26 Oct 2016 at 12:25:36 +0200, Matteo Croce wrote: > > > >> 2016-10-24 23:58 GMT+02:00 Brian Potkin : > >> > On Mon 24 Oct 2016 at 19:46:51 +0200,

Bug#832637: cups-browsed: Shutdown hangs on A stop job runs for Make remote CUPS printers available locally

2016-08-21 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu 28 Jul 2016 at 02:00:36 +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: Thank you for your report, Heinrich. > every time I shutdown my system I have to wait 90 s for a stop job > showing the message Is this consistent behaviour? > A stop job runs for Make remote CUPS printers available locally This

Bug#832637: More info

2016-08-21 Thread Brian Potkin
Thank you for the extra information, Roderich. On Sun 21 Aug 2016 at 14:57:57 +0200, Roderich Schupp wrote: > I have the same problem as Heinrich Schuchardt (same version of > cups-browsed, but cups-daemon 2.2~rc1-4 from experimental). > > $ sudo systemctl stop cups-browsed.service > > takes

Bug#832637: cups-browsed: Shutdown hangs on A stop job runs for Make remote CUPS printers available locally

2016-08-21 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 21 Aug 2016 at 17:50:41 +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > On 08/21/2016 02:20 PM, Brian Potkin wrote: > > On Thu 28 Jul 2016 at 02:00:36 +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > > > > Thank you for your report, Heinrich. > > > >> every time I shutdown

Bug#815807: cups: printing on printers broadcast by old CUPS versions fails

2016-08-22 Thread Brian Potkin
Reassign 815807 cups-browsed thanks Thank you for this additional information, Patrick. On Fri 19 Aug 2016 at 12:42:51 +0100, Patrick Welche wrote: > I just reproduced this, admittedly between ubuntu rather than vanilla debian > boxen, so it sounds like a real cups problem. The work involved

Bug#832637: More info

2016-08-23 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 21 Aug 2016 at 17:30:10 +0200, Roderich Schupp wrote: > On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Brian Potkin > wrote: > > > Are you positive cups.service is still running while cups-browsed is > > stopping? 'systemctl status cups' in another terminal would tell y

Bug#815807: cups: printing on printers broadcast by old CUPS versions fails

2016-08-28 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon 22 Aug 2016 at 19:36:32 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Fri 19 Aug 2016 at 12:42:51 +0100, Patrick Welche wrote: > > > > > > DeviceURI implicitclass:ufs2 > > You have duplicate queues being broadcast on the network; is this your > intention? cups-browsed c

Bug#838876: debian-reference: .xesssion

2016-09-25 Thread Brian Potkin
Source: debian-reference Version: 2.59 Severity: normal Section 7.5.2. makes it clear that ~/.xsession or ~/.Xsession customise the startup of X for a user. This fits well with what is is said in startx(1) and Xsession(5). A ~/.xsession is the client which controls the starting and stopping of X.

Bug#838910: X11-common: Please be more specific about the purpose of ~/.xsessionrc

2016-09-26 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: X11-common Version: 1:7.7+16 Severity: normal Tags: patch Xsession(5) says: /etc/X11/Xsession.d/40x11-common_xsessionrc Source global environment variables. This script will source anything in $HOME/.xsessionrc if the file is present. This allows the user to se

Bug#838909: X11-common: 40x11-common_xsessionrc breaks Xsession.options

2016-09-26 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: X11-common Version: 1:7.7+16 Severity: normal A user can put anything in ~/.xsessionrc which can be put in ~/.xsession. Most files in Xsession.d/ have a check for what is allowed in Xsession.options. ~/.xsessionrc doesn't, so the user has a free rein. Xsession(5) notes that restriction

Bug#838876: debian-reference: The relationship between .xsessionrc and .xsession is unclear

2016-09-26 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon 26 Sep 2016 at 00:05:09 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > The purpose of ~/.xsessionrc deserves an entry in debian-reference but > not under a heading of "Customizing the X session (new method)" and with > rather more detailed treatment than it gets elsewhere. For the

Bug#838876: debian-reference: The relationship between .xsessionrc and .xsession is unclear

2016-09-28 Thread Brian Potkin
tags 838876 patch thanks On Mon 26 Sep 2016 at 00:05:09 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > Section 7.5.2. makes it clear that ~/.xsession or ~/.Xsession customise > the startup of X for a user. This fits well with what is is said in > startx(1) and Xsession(5). A ~/.xsession is the cli

Bug#838910: X11-common: Please be more specific about the purpose of ~/.xsessionrc

2016-09-28 Thread Brian Potkin
tags: patch thanks Focussing on the documentation for Xsession(5), here is an improved patch to make clearer what purpose ~/.xsessionrc has: A ~/.xsessionrc file can be sourced as a part of the start up process. The file can be used to set environment variables and start programs, all of which

Bug#838876: debian-reference: .xesssion

2016-09-28 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed 28 Sep 2016 at 23:03:47 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, Hello Osamu-san. > On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 12:05:09AM +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > > Source: debian-reference > > Version: 2.59 > > Severity: normal > > > > > > Section 7.5.2. make

Bug#838876: debian-reference: .xesssion

2016-09-29 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed 28 Sep 2016 at 23:59:12 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Wed 28 Sep 2016 at 23:03:47 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > "debian-reference" is "a terse user's guide with the focus on the shell > > command line" created and maintained by volumteer

Bug#838876: debian-reference: .xesssion

2016-10-01 Thread Brian Potkin
On Fri 30 Sep 2016 at 00:05:37 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Please understand, making changes to the English source causes all > translations to be broken for some time. Naturally, I am very selective > when it comes to changing the paragraph in the English text. > > (Adding a new paragraph is muc

Bug#839743: gnome-session: Please document --disable-acceleration-check in gnome-session(1)

2016-10-04 Thread Brian Potkin
Source: gnome-session Version: 3.22.0-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream I suppose the bug tile says it all but I find no sign of documentation for the option --disable-acceleration-check apart from the changelogs. Cheers, Brian.

Bug#829573: cups-browsed: Not restarted after a cups upgrade

2016-07-04 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: cups-browsed Version: 1.9.0-2 Severity: important After an upgrade to cups 2.1.4-2 on unstable cups-browsed fails to restart. This was confirmed with systemctl restart cups-browsed apt-get --reinstall install cups-daemon systemctl status cups-browsed Removing 'Requires=cups.serv

Bug#829579: qpdfview: Print/Properties/Landscape sends nolandscape to CUPS

2016-07-04 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: qpdfview Version: 0.4.14-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream With 'cupsctl --debug-logging' it can be seen that argv[5] in an error_log contains 'nolandscape' when a PDF or PostScript file is printed with the Landscape option selected. In principle no rotation of any page takes place. For

Bug#1039983: cups: CMYK capable printer does not print in colour

2023-07-02 Thread Brian Potkin
tags 1039983 upstream retitle 1039983 CMYK capable printer does not print in colour thanks On Fri 30 Jun 2023 at 17:56:08 +0200, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > Package: cups > Version: 2.4.2-3 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions,

Bug#1030043: hplip-gui: traceback when launching hp-toolbox

2023-02-02 Thread Brian Potkin
tags 1029459 upstream severity 1029459 important thanks On Mon 30 Jan 2023 at 17:27:10 +0100, Julien Patriarca wrote: > Package: hplip-gui > Version: 3.22.10+dfsg0-1 > Severity: grave > Tags: patch > Justification: renders package unusable > > Dear Maintainer, > >* What led up to the sit

Bug#1031233: hplip: hp-plugin unable to download plugin

2023-02-13 Thread Brian Potkin
tags 1031233 upstream merge 1031233 1029459 severity 103123 important thanks On Mon 13 Feb 2023 at 09:20:49 -0800, Curtis Dean Smith wrote: > Package: hplip > Version: 3.22.10+dfsg0-1 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > X-Debbugs-Cc: smit...@hush.com > > Dear Maintain

Bug#1022974: hplip: Needs sudo but does not depend on it

2022-12-15 Thread Brian Potkin
tags 1022974 moreinfo thanks On Fri 28 Oct 2022 at 19:11:36 +0300, Teemu Ikonen wrote: > Package: hplip > Version: 3.22.6+dfsg0-1 > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-Cc: tpiko...@gmail.com > > When installing the non-free plugin with hp-plugin, the installer > authenticates using 'sudo'. If sudo is

Bug#1033625: cups constantly without timeout connects to network printer, does not print

2023-03-28 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue 28 Mar 2023 at 23:01:47 +0200, Johan Kröckel wrote: > Package: cups > Version: 2.4.2-2 > Severity: important > X-Debbugs-Cc: johan.kroec...@gmail.com > > I am using a Kyocera Ecosys m5526cdw over the network. Printing > stopped working (worked with this version before). > > Now when I try

Bug#1033625:

2023-03-29 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed 29 Mar 2023 at 11:36:50 +0200, Johan Kröckel wrote: > root@stockholm:~# lpstat -l -e > Kyocera_ECOSYS_M5526cdw network none > ipps://Kyocera%20ECOSYS%20M5526cdw._ipps._tcp.local/ Printiing should take place with lp -d Kyocera_ECOSYS_M5526cdw /etc/nsswitch.conf Does it? > root@stockho

Bug#1033616: cups prepends job number to job-name so job names near 255 characters may be too long

2023-03-29 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue 28 Mar 2023 at 18:45:02 +0200, John Hughes wrote: > Package: cups > Version: 2.3.3op2-3+deb11u2 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > >* What led up to the situation? > > I printed a page from firefox with a very, very long URL. Firefox used the > first 255 bytes of the URL as

Bug#1033625: closed by Brian Potkin (Re: Bug#1033625:)

2023-03-30 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu 30 Mar 2023 at 15:54:09 +0200, Johan Kröckel wrote: > Hi Brian, > > thanks for your help. But isn't it still a bug that cups is creating a > printer(-queue) that not only does not work, but also when using it opens > connections to the printer for hours? I think about the situation, that y

Bug#1029459: hp-plugin crashes when trying to download plugin with error NameError: name 'get_distro_std_name' is not defined. Did you mean: 'get_distro_name'?

2023-01-23 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon 23 Jan 2023 at 01:39:46 +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > Package: hplip > Version: 3.22.10+dfsg0-1 > Severity: grave > Justification: makes it unusable > > $ hp-plugin > > HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.22.10) > Plugin Download and Install Utility ver. 2.1 > > Copyright (c) 2

Bug#1029459: hp-plugin crashes when trying to download plugin with error NameError: name 'get_distro_std_name' is not defined. Did you mean: 'get_distro_name'?

2023-01-23 Thread Brian Potkin
forwarded 1029459 https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/2003739 thanks > On Mon, Jan 23 2023 at 04:57:16 PM +00:00:00 +00:00:00, Brian Potkin > wrote: > > My attempt with > > > > sh -i hplip-3.22.10-plugin.run > > > > failed over an

Bug#1029779: cups: Can't add printers after fresh install.

2023-01-27 Thread Brian Potkin
tags 1029779 moreinfo thanks On Fri 27 Jan 2023 at 15:53:28 +0100, Ignacio Encinas Rubio wrote: > Package: cups > Version: 2.4.2-1+b2 > Severity: important > X-Debbugs-Cc: iencinasru...@gmail.com > > Dear Maintainer, > > After freshly installing cups I tried adding a printer, but I couldn't >

Bug#1029779: cups: Can't add printers after fresh install.

2023-01-29 Thread Brian Potkin
tags 1029779 unreproducible thanks On Sat 28 Jan 2023 at 13:11:20 +0100, Ignacio Encinas Rubio wrote: > Yes. Originally root and user had same password. Couldn't login and luckily > found that old issue, changed root password and then the problem was > solved. > > I'm unable to reproduce this

Bug#998408: "good password" advice in installer is still bad two years after this was reported

2023-09-08 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu 07 Sep 2023 at 01:27:23 +0200, Philip Hands wrote: > Jonathan Kamens writes: > > > Oh, I see now that the fact that the installer shouldn't recommend > > changing one's password regularly was also reported previously, in bug > > #868869. > > Also, in #656509 (in which Cyril states that

Bug#1018085: hplip fails to setup wired printer HP P 1102w

2022-08-25 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu 25 Aug 2022 at 08:41:20 -0500, William Melgaard wrote: > Package: hplip > Version: 3.21.2+dfsg1-2 > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-Cc: piob...@mindspring.com Thank you for your report, William. > Dear Maintainer, > > *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropria

Bug#1018265: cups picks manual tray on HP Color LaserJet M252dw

2022-08-28 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 28 Aug 2022 at 11:24:51 +0200, Steinar Bang wrote: > Package: cups > Version: 2.3.3op2-3+deb11u2 > Severity: important > X-Debbugs-Cc: s...@dod.no Thank you for your report, Steinar. > Dear Maintainer, > > When printing, the printer picks what it calls "Tray 1", which is a slot in > th

Bug#1019593: hp-plugin: Failure to download plugin

2022-09-14 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed 14 Sep 2022 at 21:04:41 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > Thanks Brian for your quick response. Yeah, it's cool that I can use > the printer for driverless printing, but unfortunately, the scanning > functionality still requires the plugin. On unstable libsane1 installs the recommended san

Bug#198904: acknowledged by developer (closing bug 198904)

2006-04-30 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 07:04:02AM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Hi ! > > The bug you reported seems to be fixed in the latest mc release, so > I close the bug. Hello Ludovic, The -h flag is in the USAGE section of mc(1) but there is still no mention in OPTIONS of it giving some he

Bug#537901: cowdancer: Debian Changelog: suggestion for a very minor fix

2009-07-21 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: cowdancer Version: 0.56 Severity: minor I know I shouldn't, but couldn't resist! > cowdancer (0.56) unstable; urgency=low > * minor fix to grammer in cowbuilder.README.Debian (closes: #528559) I have a patch for the speling if you want it. Cheers, Brian. -- System Information: Deb

Bug#537947: pbuilder create fails

2009-07-21 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: pbuilder Version: 0.181 Severity: normal This is a new pbuilder setup with a ~/.pbuilderrc containing OTHERMIRROR="deb file:/var/cache/pbuilder/result ./" BINDMOUNTS="/var/cache/pbuilder/result - jo...@laptop:~$ su

Bug#537901: cowdancer: Debian Changelog: suggestion for a very minor fix

2009-07-26 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 26 Jul 2009 at 23:50:21 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Is this a bugreport? It was intended as such but being such a very minor point I was endeavouring to make light of it. Apologies. > > > * minor fix to grammer in cowbuilder.README.Debian (closes: #528559) 'grammer' should be 'grammar

Bug#460278: Add shuffle.crm to /usr/share/crm114?

2008-01-11 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: crm114 Version: 20070810-2~bpo40+1 Severity: normal /usr/share/crm114 contains a nice set of files which can be linked to or copied to get crm114 working. However, mailtrainer.crm with the random option gives an error if shuffle.crm is not used. Ok, it can be copied from /usr/share/doc/c

Bug#608519: grub-pc: 05_debian_theme assumes background image was copied from an installed desktop-base

2010-12-31 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: grub-pc Severity: important I have a machine running unstable. The background image is moreblue-orbit-grub.png which is in /boot/grub. The image was copied from desktop-base but the package itself has never been installed on the system and, due to space restrictions, never will be. The r

Bug#608519: 05_debian_theme assumes background image was copied from an installed desktop-base

2011-01-02 Thread Brian Potkin
Severity raised to 'grave' because data loss occurs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#608519: grub-pc: 05_debian_theme assumes background image was copied from an installed desktop-base

2011-01-02 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 02 Jan 2011 at 17:03:56 +0100, Alexander Kurtz wrote: > Unfortunately I can't think of any way to fix this. 05_debian_theme is > already comparing filenames AND checksums to make sure it doesn't delete > user-generated files. I was also thinking about comparing the timestamps > so that prob

Bug#608519: 05_debian_theme assumes background image was copied from an installed desktop-base

2011-01-02 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 02 Jan 2011 at 18:06:33 +0100, Alexander Kurtz wrote: > What data did you lose? Normally 05_debian_theme should only delete > files which match both in filename and checksum to a list of files > desktop-base provided. It did exactly what is was designed to do - except the file had not been

Bug#608519: grub-pc: 05_debian_theme assumes background image was copied from an installed desktop-base

2011-01-02 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 02 Jan 2011 at 21:23:42 +0100, Alexander Kurtz wrote: > Hi, > > I am sorry for the discomfort my script has caused. I'll try to explain > my intentions: [Snip] Your comprehensive explanation is very much appreciated. Like you I don't see any way to have 05_debian_theme discover where a f

Bug#609142: get-iplayer: Fails to stream and record

2011-01-06 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.78-1 Severity: important Could be a temporary problem - but past history indicates it probably won't be. No fix at infradead.org yet. Regards, Brian. - br...@desktop:~$ getiplayer -g 537 --mode

Bug#609143: get-iplayer: Should this package be part of Squeeze

2011-01-06 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.78-1 Severity: wishlist For a number of months now get-iplayer has been behaving very well, for me at least, but in my mind has been the question of what happens to the package when it is in stable and it breaks, as it inevitably will. Has any thought been given to

Bug#612968: extra-xdg-menus: Spelling - package description

2011-02-11 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: extra-xdg-menus Severity: minor In the package description: disbled -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.8 APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF

Bug#613121: /usr/share/doc/vlc is empty

2011-02-12 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: vlc Version: 1.1.7-2 Severity: normal In replacing the previous version of vlc a day or so ago the directory /usr/share/doc/vlc was left in place and is empty. It looks as though it should be replaced with a link to /usr/share/doc/vlc-nox but this didn't happen until vlc was purged and re

Bug#613122: vlc: Video coordinates/window decorations

2011-02-12 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: vlc Version: 1.1.7-2 Severity: normal I have 'Embedded video' unticked. Setting the Video X coordinate and the Video Y coordinate to 20 (or any other value) doesn't produce a window in the desired position. Furthermore, unticking 'Window decorations' has no effect. A nondecorated, border

Bug#582659: ERROR: Closing connection: NetStream.Failed

2010-05-22 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.76-1 Severity: important br...@testbox:~$ get-iplayer -g 71 --mode flashhigh get_iplayer v2.76, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRAN

Bug#582905: get-iplayer: Fails to stream national radio stations

2010-05-24 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.76-2 Severity: important 'get-iplayer --type liveradio' followed by an attempt to stream Radio 4 results in: > br...@testbox:~$ get-iplayer --stream 80135 > get_iplayer v2.76, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis > This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; fo

Bug#582905: get-iplayer: Fails to stream national radio stations

2010-05-24 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.76-2 Severity: normal The github version of get_iplayer may very well allow live streaming of all radio stations but when it comes to live TV: > br...@testbox:~$ get-iplayer --stream 80001 > WARNING: Ignoring invalid option in /var/lib/get_iplayer/options: > 'pac

Bug#582905: get-iplayer: Fails to stream national radio stations

2010-05-26 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.76-2 Severity: normal The version of get_iplayer at http://git.infradead.org/get_iplayer.git/commit/eff725157ed3570fa0a83f61144f22e19d3867a2 appears to be ok for streaming of live radio and TV. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.

Bug#586040: dpkg-awk: Option -rs doesn't work

2010-06-15 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: dpkg-awk Version: 1.0.3 Severity: normal br...@testbox:~$ dpkg-awk -rs "---" "Priority:important" -- Package illegal short option! 'rs' / [args] --rec_sep works ok. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture:

Bug#587146: get-iplayer: Fails to stream BBC One

2010-06-25 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.78-1 Severity: normal br...@testbox:~$ get_iplayer --stream 80002 get_iplayer v2.78, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it und

Bug#519083: sendemail/sendEmail: symlink

2009-03-10 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: sendemail Severity: wishlist Very often the command name is the same as the package name so it can be confusing for people when they find 'sendemail' does not work. Would symlinking '/usr/bin/sendEmail' to '/usr/bin/sendemail' be appropriate? -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0

Bug#606756: dash: Relies on /usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz existing

2010-12-11 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: dash Version: 0.5.5.1-7.3 Severity: important I have Lenny on a thin client with a limited amount of disk space. All documentation has been removed. The upgrade to Squeeze stops with cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing /var/

Bug#601164: sflphoned: Uniformative SFLPHONED(1)

2010-10-23 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: sflphone-daemon Version: 0.9.8.4-1 Severity: normal File: sflphoned > SYNOPSIS > sflphoned [OPTION]... I'd expect better of Debian when it comes to documentation. The -h option comes to the rescue. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT po

Bug#609142: get-iplayer: Fails to stream and record

2011-01-06 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: get-iplayer Followup-For: Bug #609142 As | previously said: > RTMPDump v2.2c Switching to flvstreamer solves the problem. There is a few of these ERROR: HandleCtrl: Ignoring SWFVerification request, no CRYPTO support! Resuming download at: 559977.734 kB / 3050.440 sec (86.1%) b

Bug#609142: get-iplayer: Fails to stream and record

2011-01-06 Thread Brian Potkin
On Fri 07 Jan 2011 at 00:14:14 +, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > get-iplayer in Squeeze already Recommends flvstreamer, which is also in > main, so no action is needed as far as the package is concerned. After realising rtmpdump and not flvstreamer was being used on my machine I should have made

Bug#609672: get-iplayer: This package's suitability for being in a stable release is questionable

2011-01-11 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.78-1 Severity: important I'd tag this bug as release-critical except as an end-user it is not encouraged. Within a day of the release of Squeeze it is not unlikely get-iplayer could be completely broken. Please see bug #608176. I would suggest it takes a view which

Bug#602293: mupdf requires a file

2010-11-03 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: mupdf Version: 0.7-2 Severity: normal Thanks for packaging mupdf. Whether it will replace my use of xpdf remains to be seen but it is certainly fast with the files I have used it for. I'm using xfce4 and the install puts a menu entry in the Graphics section. But clicking on it results in

Bug#556877: sane-utils: Template advice could be a little more helpful

2009-11-17 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: sane-utils Version: 1.0.19-23 Severity: normal Part of the 'Enable saned as a standalone server?' section of the sane-utils template says: > When run in standalone mode, saned advertises itself on the network and > can be detected automatically by the SANE clients with no configuration >

Bug#556912: libsane: Tidying up dll.conf

2009-11-18 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: libsane Version: 1.0.19-23 Severity: minor Some guidance in dll.conf is: > # enable the next line if you want to allow access through the network: It's not particularily confusing but the net backend is already uncommented. Regards, Brian. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0

Bug#556912: Bug#556877: sane-utils: Template advice could be a little more helpful

2009-11-18 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed 18 Nov 2009 at 12:36:13 +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: > The mDNS support is unfinished in a number of ways, so unless I can get > back to working on it, I'm probably going to disable it for Squeeze. I'd suggest altering the template then to reflect this. > Currently the discovery in the ne

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