Bug#274333: libgnomeprint 2.8.0 breaks gpdf

[Filip Van Raemdonck]

On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 01:03:52AM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote:
> 
>  Can you reproduce the problem?

Yes.

>  If you can't, I'd like to understand when you installed "cupsys".  Did
>  you:
>  a) install cupsys, reboot your system, then got the bug, then rebooted,
>     your system and couldn't reproduce?
>  b) install cupsys, then got the bug, then rebooted and couldn't
>     reproduce?
>  c) got the bug, install cupsys, then rebooted and couldn't reproduce?
>  d) none of the above?

d: install cupsys, use it happily for a long time, same for gpdf, and gpdf
just broke last week.
No reboots involved.
Stopping cupsd did not change gpdf breakage.

>  If you can't reproduce the problem, please start a "nc -l -p 631" as
>  root: does gpdf behaves incorrectly as it did the first time?

Yes, it does.
I got this output from netcat:

POST / HTTP/1.1
Content-Length: 137
Content-Type: application/ipp
Host: localhost

@Gattributes-charset
iso-8859-1Httributes-natural-languageenDrequested-attributes
                                                            printer-nameDjob-sheets-default


Regards,

Filip

-- 
"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose
 from. And if you really don't like all the standards you just have to
 wait another year until the one arises you are looking for."
	-- Andrew Tanenbaum, "Introduction to Computer Networks"