Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: system-config-printer
This update contains several bug fixes, especially it fixes bug 102389
(HIGH), bug 127152 (MEDIUM), bug 128261 (MEDIUM), and bug 132994 (LOW).
This will make the scanning for SMB-provided printers (Windows and Samba
servers) correctly working and the add-printer wizard will select the
text-only printer in the case that the detected printer model is
unknown. The Ubuntu package will also recommend the "hal-cups-utils"
package to enable "Plug'n'Print" (auto setup of print queues).
The changes are the following (cited upstream ChangeLog):
2007-08-21 Till Kamppeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* pysmb.py: "nmblookup -M -- -" not always gives a result. If not,
fall back to "nmblookup '*'". This should fix Ubuntu bug 127152.
If a printer share name has spaces, it got truncated at its first
space this is fixed now and should fix Ubuntu bug 128261.
* system-config-printer.py: Extract make and model name from the
PPD file for positioning the cursor in the make/model selection
whenever a PPD file was found, also with STATUS_NO_DRIVER.
If there is no device ID information at all call PPD search with
a non-existing device ID to get a fallback PPD (like textonly.ppd or
postscript.ppd). This way the model selection cursor is never simply
set onto the first entry of the "Generic" printers.
This two changes fix Ubuntu bug 102389.
* ppds.py: Let the PPDs coming with CUPS have higher priority than the
"Generic" PPDs of Foomatic, but lower priority than model-specific
Foomatic PPDs.
(PPDs._findBestMatchPPDs): This function raised an exception on model
names without digits.
Here is also the debian/changelog:
system-config-printer (0.7.71+-svn1415-0ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low
* New upstream release
o Subversion snapshot r1415
o Search for SMB servers not only via "nmblookup -M -- -" but also with
"nmblookup '*'" (LP: #127152).
o Take into account that SMB share names can have spaces when scanning
network for SMB-provided printers (LP: #128261).
o Make sure that in case of the detected printer being unknown always
the text-only printer is pre-selected (LP: #102389).
o Let the generic PostScript PPD coming with CUPS have a higher priority
than the generic PostScript PPD of Foomatic.
o Fixed a traceback when trying to find a PPD for a printer with no
digits in the model name and where the model name does not match
any of the PPDs exactly.
* debian/control: Added "Recommends: hal-cups-utils" (LP: #132994).
-- Till Kamppeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:51:44
+0100
The package source files and the debdiff are here:
http://www.linux-foundation.org/~till/tmp/ubuntu/gutsy/system-config-
printer/
** Affects: system-config-printer (Ubuntu)
Importance: High
Status: New
** Changed in: system-config-printer (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
Target: None => tribe-5
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UVF ER: system-config-printer SVN rev 1415
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/133891
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