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

[Michael Schmitt]

I agree! I'd just replace the file like the ubuntu-folks did. Maybe a
fancy debian specific PS file? Sorry, I have _no_ art skills, otherwise
I'd send a patch right away.

greets
Michael

Am Mittwoch, den 06.06.2007, 16:32 +0200 schrieb 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. 
>