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gutenprint package

gutenprint unable to update ppd when source ppd is a symbolic link

Bug #353242 reported by Sachin Garg
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: cups-driver-gutenprint

Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04

cups-driver-gutenprint:
  Installed: 5.2.3-0ubuntu4

/usr/sbin/cups-genppdupdate fails with a "file not found" error at line 403 if the source file name is a symbolic link.

Works if the file is a regular file.

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/jaunty/gutenprint
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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

Why are your PPD files in /etc/cups/ppd/ symbolic links? How do you create print queues?

Changed in gutenprint (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Sachin Garg (sgarg-bugreporter) wrote :

I think I had manually installed a printer and wanted to clone an existing printer - that was why it was a symlink.

AFAIK, the PPD only has information about the printer and ideally, we should just be creating symlinks in /etc/cups/ppd/ pointing to the actual PPD file - this will reduce clutter in the /etc/cups/ppd/ directory.

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

Fixed by making failures during the PPD update non-fatal. If the links point to other PPD files in /etc/cups/ppd/ nothing should get lost, as the original file gets updated.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gutenprint - 5.2.3-0ubuntu5

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gutenprint (5.2.3-0ubuntu5) jaunty; urgency=low

  * debian/cups-driver-gutenprint.postinst: Make failures of the updater
    for the PPD files of existing print queues for the CUPS Raster driver
    non-fatal (LP: #353220, LP: #353242).

 -- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Thu, 2 Apr 2009 20:09:49 +0100

Changed in gutenprint (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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