Bug#418974: Processed: reassign 418974 to cupsys, forcibly merging 379510 418974

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 03:50 +0200, Michael Schmitt wrote:
> Hi Sven, and all others,
> 
> I agree, we should not wait till gnome fixes it if the reason why this
> breaks the testpage is known and obvious! I had this issue myself the
> last hours and I never thought this is just the gnome testpage that does
> not work. It was just by chance I tried the cups-testpage on the
> webinterface and I was really perplexed as it worked there after I have
> found out that it may be a problem with the PS transformation. It took
> one  minute thinking to see the problem lies where I never thought it
> could be... after hours of googleing, purging and reinstalling cups /
> gs-* and lots of other things!
> 
> To be honest, I barely can't believe that this bug is known for more
> than half a year now and still not fixed.
> 
> Please fix that issue! So maybe several thousands, millions, billions of
> other Debian users don't fall into this trap too, thinking their printer
> is broken just because the testpage does not work. Guess... a testpage
> should be for testing purposes, suboptimal if this does not work but
> everything else does.

Hi,

No, waiting for upstream to fix this is probably not a good idea,
gnome-cups-manager haven't had a new release since 2005...

I'm not sure what the best solution (or work around) is? There's a
suggestion in bug 379510 (commenting out the code "b4_inc_state
restore"). Looking at the Ubuntu package, it seems they are simply
replacing the eps files with proper ps ones.

I would really appreciate it if someone from pkg-gnome could have a look
on this. 

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
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