cupsys: infrastructure for dvi autodetection and printing missing.

[Debian Bug Importer]

Automatically imported from Debian bug report #343192 http://bugs.debian.org/343192

[Debian Bug Importer (debzilla)]

Automatically imported from Debian bug report #343192 http://bugs.debian.org/343192

[Debian Bug Importer (debzilla)]

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:01:28 +0100
From: Wilfried Goesgens <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: cupsys: infrastructure for dvi autodetection and printing missing.

--===============0616324677==
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline

Package: cupsys
Version: 1.1.23-12
Severity: serious
Tags: patch
Justification: dvis can't be printed automagically like that.

with some magic cups can be convinced to directly print dvi files.
i achieved this with:
* adding to mime.convs:
application/x-dvi application/postscript 33 dvips
* adding to mime.types
application/x-dvi dvi contains(0,2048,"TeX output")

creating a tiny shellscript in /usr/lib/cups/filters/dvips
#!/bin/bash

# See if we have a filename on the command-line...
if test -z "$6"; then
TMPFILE=`mktemp`
cat >$TMPFILE
 ifile="$TMPFILE"
 else
         ifile="$6"
  fi
  # try to figure out the dpi's...
  DPI=`cat $PPD |grep -i "resolution " |tail -n 1|sed -e
  "s;\*Resolution.*dpi/;;" -e "s; DPI.*;;"`

  ARGS="-D $DPI "
  if test "$DPI" -gt "400"; then
   ARGS="$ARGS -Z "
   fi
   echo INFO: Starting dvips. 1>&2
   echo DEBUG: Running /usr/bin/dvips $ARGS -f \< "$ifile"
   1>&2

   exec /usr/bin/dvips $ARGS -f <"$ifile"
   rm -f $TMPFILE

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii adduser 3.80 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.62 Debian configuration management sy
ii gs-esp 8.15.1.dfsg.1-1 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii libc6 2.3.5-8.1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcupsimage2 1.1.23-12 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libcupsys2 1.1.23-12 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libgnutls12 1.2.9-2 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libpam0g 0.79-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpaper1 1.1.14-3 Library for handling paper charact
ii libslp1 1.2.1-3 OpenSLP libraries
ii patch 2.5.9-2 Apply a diff file to an original
ii perl-modules 5.8.7-9 Core Perl modules
ii procps 1:3.2.6-2 /proc file system utilities
ii xpdf-utils 3.01-3 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-8 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cupsys recommends:
ii cupsys-client 1.1.23-12 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii foomatic-filters 3.0.2-20050720-1 linuxprinting.org printer support
ii smbclient 3.0.20b-3 a LanManager-like simple client fo

-- debconf information:
  cupsys/raw-p...

[Kenshi Muto (kmuto)]

# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.9.9
severity 343192 wishlist

[Debian Bug Importer (debzilla)]

Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 14:35:26 +0900
From: Kenshi Muto <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: severity of 343192 is wishlist

# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.9.9
severity 343192 wishlist

[Carthik Sharma (carthik)]

Changing status to confirmed, severity to wishlist to reflect upstream (Debian) changes in status and severity.

[Kenshi Muto (kmuto)]

Package: cupsys
Version: 1.1.23-8
Followup-For: Bug#343192

> Justification: dvis can't be printed automagically like that.
>
> with some magic cups can be convinced to directly print dvi files.

There isn't proper way to convert ANY dvi and adding default filter
makes bigger dependency.
Since cups 1.1.23-8, cupsys includes dvipipetops filter example in
/usr/share/doc/cupsys/examples/filters. Please try this.

Thanks,
--
Kenshi Muto
<email address hidden>

[Carthik Sharma (carthik)]

The fix was committed to 1.1.23-8 in Debian. Ubuntu has a newer version. Closing.