Bug#686653: HP Deskjet broken in Wheezy

[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. The PPD changed to f300 Series, hpcups 3.16.3

Did I ever think to look at the changelog? Or did I miss the significance
of this?

  * debian/hplip-cups.postinst, debian/hpijs.postinst: Switch to hpcups as
default driver (migrate HPIJS queues to hpcups). The problem of Ghostscript
segfaulting when generating CUPS raster data is solved and the hpcups
driver needs also more testing.

 -- Till Kamppeter   Thu,  3 Jun 2010 15:36:18 +0200

I suppose the question now is whether the hpcups driver has had enough
testing.

Regards,

Brian.

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> severity 686653 normal
Bug #686653 [cups] HP Deskjet broken in Wheezy
Severity set to 'normal' from 'important'
> reassign 686653 printer-driver-hpcups
Bug #686653 [cups] HP Deskjet broken in Wheezy
Bug reassigned from package 'cups' to 'printer-driver-hpcups'.
No longer marked as found in versions cups/1.5.3-1 and cups/2.1.3-5.
Ignoring request to alter fixed versions of bug #686653 to the same values 
previously set
> merge 686653 768859
Bug #686653 [printer-driver-hpcups] HP Deskjet broken in Wheezy
Bug #686653 [printer-driver-hpcups] HP Deskjet broken in Wheezy
Marked as found in versions hplip/3.14.6-1.
Bug #768859 [printer-driver-hpcups] [printer-driver-hpcups] upgrading the 
packages overwrites the ppd
Merged 686653 768859
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> found 686653 cups/2.1.3-5
Bug #686653 [cups] HP Deskjet broken in Wheezy
Marked as found in versions cups/2.1.3-5.
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Bug#686653: HP Deskjet broken in Wheezy

[Brian Potkin]

found 686653 cups/2.1.3-5
thanks



Established a queue with f300_series-hpijs on Jessie. Ugpraded the machine
to unstable. The PPD changed to f300 Series, hpcups 3.16.3

Regards,
 
Brian.

Bug#686653: HP Deskjet broken in Wheezy

[Brian Potkin]

On Thu 06 Sep 2012 at 18:27:10 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:

 On Tue 04 Sep 2012 at 11:48:26 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
 
  So, to summarise:
  
   * The upgrade from squeeze to wheezy looks like it changed print
 driver without warning (to one that didn't work!)
 
 I can reproduce this by creating a print queue on Squeeze using the PPD
 file for hp-deskjet_f300_series-hpijs and then upgrading to Wheezy. This
 PPD file is replaced by the one for hpcups without altering the file name
 in /etc/cups/ppd. I guess this is something to do with updating the PPDs
 but don't know exactly where to look. Hence the Cc:.

I want to concentrate on the change in ppd file on upgrading from Squeeze
to wheezy because it appears to me to be the essence of the bug report.
It may also be deserving of a higher severity level than important but
I will leave that on one side for the present.

The bug appears on upgrading because packages printer-driver-hpijs and
printer-driver-hpcups are both installed and the hpcups updater file in
/usr/share/cups/ppd-updaters/ is run before the one for hpijs. This,
however, is not the fundamental origin of the bug.

My attempt to make progress towards a successful solution of this bug
follows.

Testing procedure.
--

1. Implement a fully up-to-date Wheezy machine.

2. Create a print queue with

 lpadmin -p TEST-HP -v file:/dev/null -m 
drv:///hpijs.drv/hp-deskjet_f300_series-hpijs.ppd

3. Delete the hpijs and hpcups lines in /var/cache/cups/ppd-updates.
   This (I think) replicates the situation when a Squeeze/Wheezy update
   place.

4. Sprinkle /var/lib/dpkg/info/cups.postinst with a few echo statements
   like

 echo $driverregep is driverregep

5. Then

 apt-get --reinstall install printer-driver-hpijs

The screen output I get is:

   root@testing-cups:~# ls -l /etc/cups/ppd/
   total 48
   -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21151 Mar 15 22:20 TEST-HP.ppd

  root@testing-cups:~# apt-get --reinstall install printer-driver-hpijs
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 0 B/434 kB of archives.
  After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
  (Reading database ... 29441 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to replace printer-driver-hpijs 3.12.6-3.1 (using 
.../printer-driver-hpijs_3.12.6-3.1_i386.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement printer-driver-hpijs ...
  Processing triggers for man-db ...
  Processing triggers for cups ...
  [ ok ] Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd.
  Updating PPD files for hpcups ...
  drv:///hpcups.drv/|lsb/usr/hplip/HP/HP-Fax.*-hpcups is driverregex
  TEST-HP is the queue name
  HP\ DJ\ f300 is the nickname in the ppd
  drv:///hpcups.drv/hp-deskjet_f300_series.ppd is the newppduri
  PPD for printer TEST-HP updated
  drv:///hpcups.drv/hp-deskjet_f300_series.ppd  is the englisppduri
  Updating PPD files for hpijs ...
  drv:///hpijs.drv/|lsb/usr/hplip/HP/HP-Fax.*-hpijs is driverregex
  TEST-HP is the queue name
  HP\ DJ\ f300\,\ hpcups\ 3\.12\.6 is the nickname in the ppd
is the englisppduri
  Setting up printer-driver-hpijs (3.12.6-3.1) ...

   root@testing-cups:~# ls -l /etc/cups/ppd/
   total 44
   -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17992 Mar 15 22:21 TEST-HP.ppd

The bug appears to reside in cups.postinst or the updater files for hpijs
and hpcups.

Regards,

Brian.


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