lpq and lpstat output empty lines only

[Ulf Rompe]

After upgrade from Oneiric to Precise Beta the commands "lpq" and "lpstat" output nothing but empty lines. That is, "lpq" gives two empty lines, "lpstat -t" gives 12 empty lines.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

This is already fixed upstream:

http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4033

[Ulf Rompe (rompe)]

I just noticed this is a locale problem. "LANG=C lpq" works correctly, "LANG=C lpstat -t" too.

[Ulf Rompe (rompe)]

Thanks, Till! For the time being I can live with the LANG=C workaround.

[Ulf Rompe (rompe)]

BTW: It seems like translations are applied twice. For example, usage() is defined like this in lpq.c:

666 static void
667 usage(void)
668 {
669 _cupsLangPuts(stderr,
670 _("Usage: lpq [-P dest] [-U username] [-h hostname[:port]] "
671 "[-l] [+interval]c"));
672 exit(1);
673 }

If I remove the _() around the string, I would expect the string to be output as is, but the translation is still applied by _cupsLangPuts().

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package cups - 1.5.2-7

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cups (1.5.2-7) unstable; urgency=low

  * Add fix-empty-translations.patch: Do not translate msgids to empty
    strings. Backported from upstream SVN. (LP: #953321)
  * Add test-i18n-nonlinux.patch: Do not run the CUPS_EUC_JP test case on
    BSD/Hurd either, as glibc's iconv behavior is different than what the test
    expects. (Closes: #662996)
  * debian/local/apparmor-profile: Allow gs to read /proc/*/auxv; it's
    harmless information. (LP: #936629)
  * debian/cups.dirs, debian/rules: Disable /usr/local/share/ppd/ directory
    for now, until dh_usrlocal stops failing on those.
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:46:09 +0100