[Pkg-samba-maint] cups ignores duplex setting in postscript files

[Jonathan Nieder]

# regression
severity 497671 important
merge 497671 500732
quit

Hi,

Matti Laakso wrote:

> We're being bit by the same bug. Duplex setting is respected when
> printing from Linux clients, but through samba it gets reset to default
> somewhere along the way.
>
> However, it seems that there may be two separate bugs: At least in our
> case pstops is not the culprit, since bypassing it with
>
> cups options = "document-format=application/vnd.cups-postscript"
>
> does not help. Also, jobs from Linux clients go through pstops as well.
> The problem is in foomatic-rip instead. Its log shows lines of the form
>
> Option: Duplex=DuplexNoTumble --> Correcting numerical/string option to
> Duplex=None (Command line argument)
>
> when printing from Windows clients. Using PCL drivers on Windows works,
> since then also foomatic is bypassed.

Thanks, and sorry for the slow reply.  Well, that's a start.
Cc-ing the foomatic-rip maintainers and samba maintainers; hopefully
they might have more questions to help track this down further.

Till et al: see http://bugs.debian.org/497671 for some analysis.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan