CUPS serial backend does not work

We will fix the permissions in the next cups-filters package in Raring.

Uploaded fixed package for Quantal to -proposed, fixing bug 1084534, bug 1076786, and bug 1040037. As soon as the package will get approved, please install it according to the instructions posted here then and test it. Your test results are required to make the package an official update for Quantal.

To the SRU team: debdiff attached.

This bug was fixed in the package cups-filters - 1.0.25-1

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cups-filters (1.0.25-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
     - urftopdf: Newly added filter to convert the URF format which (at
       least some) iOS apps send when printing via AirPrint (Upstream bug
       #1076).
     - pdftopdf: pdfautorotate functionality has been patched directly
       into pdftopdf (LP: #1040037, Upstream bug #1080).
     - pdftopdf: "mirror" produced only empty pages (XObjects not there).
     - pdftopdf: Fixed segfault on "page-ranges=1-2147483647" (from cups).
     - pdftopdf: Fixed collate filler insertion.
     - texttopdf: Fixed deficient string escaping (Upstream bug #1071).
     - serial backend: Added check for sys/ioctl.h to configure.ac (Upstream bug
       #1069).
  * debian/patches/texttopdf-fix-deficient-string-escaping.patch: Removed
    fix backported from upstream.
  * debian/rules: Added "DEB_DH_FIXPERMS_ARGS := -Xusr/lib/cups/backend" to not
    correct the permissions of CUPS backends (LP: #1076786).

 -- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:14:07 +0100

Hello André, or anyone else affected,

Accepted cups-filters into quantal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups-filters/1.0.24-2ubuntu0.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please change the bug tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not, change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

It has been more than a month and this bug is blocking release of this update into Quantal. Could someone please test this? Till - it's ok for you to test and report back, if you've got the hardware.

The bug is indeed fixed with the new package on Quantal:

till@till:~$ ll /usr/lib/cups/backend/serial
-rwx------ 1 root root 14600 Dec 29 14:31 /usr/lib/cups/backend/serial
till@till:~$

The permissions of the serial backend are correct.

The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.

This bug was fixed in the package cups-filters - 1.0.24-2ubuntu0.1

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cups-filters (1.0.24-2ubuntu0.1) quantal-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/pdftopdf-landscape-fix.patch: Auto-rotate functionality
    added to pdftopdf to print landscape-formatted PDFs (for example from
    LibreOffice) correctly (LP: #1040037, Upstream bug #1080).
  * debian/patches/pdftopdf-multiple-copies-collate-fix.patch: The pdftopdf
    filter started the second copy of a duplex job with an odd number of
    pages on the back side of the last page of the first copy. Thanks to
    David Williams from Ricoh for reporting this and to Tobias Hoffmann for
    fixing this (LP: #1084534).
  * debian/rules: Added "DEB_DH_FIXPERMS_ARGS := -Xusr/lib/cups/backend" to not
    correct the permissions of CUPS backends (LP: #1076786).
 -- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:59:59 +0100