Hard-codes paper size letter

[era]

Binary package hint: html2ps

In contradiction to the documentation, the hard-coded default paper size for html2ps in /etc/html2psrc seems to be "letter". (The html2ps manual page says the default paper size is a4.)

Ideally, this should obey the user's LC_PAPER locale setting, or /etc/papersize, or less ideally use the system paper size when installing the package to create a configuration file for the system.

This is on a Gutsy system.

vnix$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=7.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=gutsy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 7.10"

vnix$ apt-cache policy html2ps
html2ps:
  Installed: 1.0b5-4
  Candidate: 1.0b5-4
  Version table:
 *** 1.0b5-4 0
        500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

I'm looking this on Quantal's html2ps 1.0b7-1 - and it's ... interesting.

The debian package has a patch (from 2002) that sets the default paper size to the value read from paperconf; so that seems to be
sensible; however my reading is that the default config file installed over rides this as you say to 'letter'

So I think you'd actually be better removing that config file.

[era (era)]

Thanks for looking into this! The patch you are alluding to is apparently http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/html2ps/1.0b7-1/default_paper_size.patch

[era (era)]

I found several upstream bugs, none of which seem to be related to this particular patch. Hmm... See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=410011 and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=421385

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

Debian Bug 410011 is a different problem (and we already have that patch in our package).