Debian Bug report logs - #282235
RFP: drvz42 -- Lexmark z42_cmyk CUPS back-end

Package: wnpp; Maintainer for wnpp is wnpp@debian.org;

Reported by: Alexander Sack <asac@debian.org>

Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 17:03:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: David Moreno Garza <damog@merkel.debian.org>

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Kenshi Muto <kmuto@debian.org>:
Bug#282235; Package cupsys. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Alexander Sack <asac@debian.org>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Kenshi Muto <kmuto@debian.org>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Alexander Sack <asac@debian.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: Lexmark printing suddenly broken (had to compile z42_cmyk on my own)
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 17:48:16 +0100
Package: cupsys
Version: 1.1.20final+rc1-10
Severity: important

Hi,

suddenly my Lexmark printer stopped working. Apparently the
conversion tools have been dropped to be included in cupsys.

I needed to build a program called z42_cmyk in order to it
working again. I guess this is a fundamental problem that 
drivers supported in gimpprint or foomatic-db don't know
what programs they need in order to work properly. 

Usually I would suspect that cups would detect that a driver
is not fulfillable to and maybe tell what's the problem!

Here: 'you need z42_cmyk in order to make this printer functional'

Nevertheless, maybe it would be wise to include those tools in 
the printing system (it worked previously, so somehow I suspect that
this tool has been simply dropped from the upstream sources)

BTW, I downloaded the GPL source of the tool for z4x at:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pastolk/

Thx for package cupsys!

Cheers,

Alexander

p.s.: Maybe this is the wrong package, but since I really have no time
to figure out which part of the printing packages should deal with
this, I post it to cupsys. Feel free to reassign it, but CC me!


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii  adduser               3.59               Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf               1.4.30.10          Debian configuration management sy
ii  gs-esp                7.07.1-9           The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii  libc6                 2.3.2.ds1-18       GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcupsimage2         1.1.20final+rc1-10 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsys2-gnutls10   1.1.20final+rc1-10 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libgcc1               1:3.4.2-2          GCC support library
ii  libgnutls11           1.0.16-9           GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libpam0g              0.76-22            Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1             1.1.14-3           Library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1               1.0.11-7           OpenSLP libraries
ii  patch                 2.5.9-2            Apply a diff file to an original
ii  zlib1g                1:1.2.2-3          compression library - runtime

-- debconf information excluded



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Bug#282235; Package cupsys. (full text, mbox, link).


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Message #10 received at 282235@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Kenshi Muto <kmuto@debian.org>
To: Alexander Sack <asac@debian.org>
Cc: control@bugs.debian.org, 282235@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#282235: Lexmark printing suddenly broken (had to compile z42_cmyk on my own)
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 00:26:48 +0900
tags 282235 wishlist
thanks

At Sat, 20 Nov 2004 17:48:16 +0100,
Alexander Sack wrote:
> suddenly my Lexmark printer stopped working. Apparently the
> conversion tools have been dropped to be included in cupsys.

Hmm, yes, conversion tool isn't included in cupsys package. CUPS
source has test/ directory and some tools, but unfortunately they
works only on source directory structure...

> I needed to build a program called z42_cmyk in order to it
> working again. I guess this is a fundamental problem that 
> drivers supported in gimpprint or foomatic-db don't know
> what programs they need in order to work properly. 
> 
> Usually I would suspect that cups would detect that a driver
> is not fulfillable to and maybe tell what's the problem!
> 
> Here: 'you need z42_cmyk in order to make this printer functional'

Well, it is difficult. CUPS itself doesn't mind printer model.
CUPS simply communicate with database, copied from foomatic or
something.

> Nevertheless, maybe it would be wise to include those tools in 
> the printing system (it worked previously, so somehow I suspect that
> this tool has been simply dropped from the upstream sources)

I think it is better to make deb package of this tool.

> p.s.: Maybe this is the wrong package, but since I really have no time
> to figure out which part of the printing packages should deal with
> this, I post it to cupsys. Feel free to reassign it, but CC me!

Well, I think this is a noone's problem...
foomatic and gimp-print do the best, and we haven't z42_cmyk official
package.
If someone ITP drvz42, I can reassign this bug :-)

Thanks,
-- 
Kenshi Muto
kmuto@debian.org



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Severity set to `wishlist'. Request was from Kenshi Muto <kmuto@debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Debian CUPS Maintainers <pkg-cups-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>:
Bug#282235; Package cupsys. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to "Martin-Éric Racine" <q-funk@iki.fi>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Debian CUPS Maintainers <pkg-cups-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #19 received at 282235@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Martin-Éric Racine" <q-funk@iki.fi>
To: 398081@bugs.debian.org, 190135@bugs.debian.org, 201553@bugs.debian.org, 220642@bugs.debian.org, 280236@bugs.debian.org, 283581@bugs.debian.org, 284501@bugs.debian.org, 284575@bugs.debian.org, 288784@bugs.debian.org, 325561@bugs.debian.org, 353763@bugs.debian.org, 354579@bugs.debian.org, 354581@bugs.debian.org, 354590@bugs.debian.org, 369563@bugs.debian.org, 384448@bugs.debian.org, 399367@bugs.debian.org, 414299@bugs.debian.org, 283484@bugs.debian.org, 189705@bugs.debian.org, 200638@bugs.debian.org, 281974@bugs.debian.org, 282235@bugs.debian.org, 285332@bugs.debian.org, 286127@bugs.debian.org, 372133@bugs.debian.org, 423943@bugs.debian.org
Subject: [Debian QA] please review your old bug reports against CUPS
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:57:04 +0300
Dear Debian user,

You are receiving this e-mail because you have filed a bug report
against an old version of CUPS that is no longer available in any
current Debian release.

Please review your bug report and inform us whether it still applies
to version 1.2.7-4, as present in Debian release 4.0 (Etch), or to
newer releases present in the testing branch.

-- 
Martin-Éric Racine
http://q-funk.iki.fi

Message sent on to Alexander Sack <asac@debian.org>:
Bug#282235. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #22 received at 282235-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Martin-Éric Racine" <q-funk@iki.fi>
To: 398081-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 190135-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 201553-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 220642-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 280236-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 283581-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 284501-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 284575-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 288784-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 325561-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 353763-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 354579-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 354581-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 354590-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 369563-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 384448-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 399367-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 414299-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 283484-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 189705-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 200638-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 281974-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 282235-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 285332-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 286127-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 372133-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 423943-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 82004-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 82987-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 92365-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 116286-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 126170-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 130661-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 140673-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 147332-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 162459-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 163051-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 166729-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 166884-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 168954-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 174890-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 178950-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 179349-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 188237-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 192905-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 193671-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 197200-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 199623-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 208059-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 218910-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 223465-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 232549-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 235522-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 238757-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 243364-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 243365-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 245514-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 246086-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 250848-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 254747-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 257051-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 265817-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 271157-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 271874-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 289893-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 290346-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 293247-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 298249-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 306315-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 313416-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 315529-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 319093-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 322226-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 323795-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 323796-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 335391-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 338411-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 342735-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 343509-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 343518-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 343535-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 344898-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 351893-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 356416-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 365301-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 366674-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 370607-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 371740-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 372309-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 372506-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 373281-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 373793-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 374657-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 374946-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 374956-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 375254-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 375907-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 377079-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 378038-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 378062-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 378063-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 379014-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 381250-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 381280-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 381699-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 382499-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 382936-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 389240-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 391241-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 391571-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 400262-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 292480-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 372637-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 220611-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 376580-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 291788-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 356468-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 301119-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 219892-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 251391-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 259774-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 301012-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 304136-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 344542-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 355122-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 356500-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 367479-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 368019-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 370559-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 370604-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 372782-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 373720-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 377604-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 378860-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 380549-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 380640-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 381428-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 383290-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 386785-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 387201-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 390522-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 399928-submitter@bugs.debian.org
Subject: [Debian QA] please review your old bug reports against CUPS
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 13:10:26 +0300
Dear Debian user,

You are receiving this e-mail because you have filed a bug report
against an old version of CUPS that is no longer available in any
current Debian release.

Please review your bug report and inform us whether it still applies
to version 1.2.7-4, as present in Debian release 4.0 (Etch), or to
newer releases present in the testing branch.

Reply directly to the bug itself at NNN@bugs.debian.org to give us your answer.

See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=cupsys&repeatmerged=no
for the whole list of bugs concerning CUPS, if you need help
remembering which bug number was assigned to your report.

-- 
Martin-Éric Racine
http://q-funk.iki.fi

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Message #27 received at 282235-quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Alexander Sack <asac@jwsdot.com>
To: Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@iki.fi>, 282235-quiet@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#282235: [Debian QA] please review your old bug reports against CUPS
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 13:19:07 +0200
This bug most likely still persist. Last time I tried the lexmark just
didn't work right out of the box ... and you had to spin your own driver.

 - Alexander




Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Debian CUPS Maintainers <pkg-cups-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>:
Bug#282235; Package cupsys. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to "Martin-Éric Racine" <q-funk@iki.fi>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Debian CUPS Maintainers <pkg-cups-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #32 received at 282235@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Martin-Éric Racine" <q-funk@iki.fi>
To: "Alexander Sack" <asac@jwsdot.com>
Cc: 282235@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#282235: [Debian QA] please review your old bug reports against CUPS
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 14:28:45 +0300
reassign 282235 wnpp
retitle 282235 RFP: Lexmark z42_cmyk CUPS back-end
thanks

On 7/15/07, Alexander Sack <asac@jwsdot.com> wrote:
> This bug most likely still persist. Last time I tried the lexmark just
> didn't work right out of the box ... and you had to spin your own driver.

I'm afraid that "most likely" is not answering the question.

However, you are referring to a third-party driver that could be
packaged separately, the same way that "cups-pdf" was. I'm thus gonna
reassign this to wnpp and call it an RFP.

-- 
Martin-Éric Racine
http://q-funk.iki.fi

Bug reassigned from package `cupsys' to `wnpp'. Request was from "Martin-Éric Racine" <q-funk@iki.fi> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:30:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Changed Bug title to `RFP: Lexmark z42_cmyk CUPS back-end' from `Lexmark printing suddenly broken (had to compile z42_cmyk on my own)'. Request was from "Martin-Éric Racine" <q-funk@iki.fi> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:30:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, <wnpp@debian.org>:
Bug#282235; Package wnpp. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Alexander Sack <asac@jwsdot.com>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to <wnpp@debian.org>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #41 received at 282235@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Alexander Sack <asac@jwsdot.com>
To: Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@iki.fi>
Cc: 282235@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#282235: [Debian QA] please review your old bug reports against CUPS
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:01:20 +0200
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 02:28:45PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> reassign 282235 wnpp
> retitle 282235 RFP: Lexmark z42_cmyk CUPS back-end
> thanks
> 
> On 7/15/07, Alexander Sack <asac@jwsdot.com> wrote:
> >This bug most likely still persist. Last time I tried the lexmark just
> >didn't work right out of the box ... and you had to spin your own driver.
> 
> I'm afraid that "most likely" is not answering the question.

I'm afraid that I don't have this printer anymore ... so ...

 - Alexander




Changed Bug title to `RFP: drvz42 -- Lexmark z42_cmyk CUPS back-end' from `RFP: Lexmark z42_cmyk CUPS back-end'. Request was from Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:39:01 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Reply sent to David Moreno Garza <damog@merkel.debian.org>:
You have taken responsibility. (full text, mbox, link).


Notification sent to Alexander Sack <asac@debian.org>:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #48 received at 282235-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Moreno Garza <damog@merkel.debian.org>
To: 282235-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: WNPP bug closing
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:59:57 -0600
Hello,

This is an automatic mail sent to close the RFP you have reported or 
are involved with.

Your RFP wnpp bug is being closed because of the following reasons:
- It is, as of today, older than 365 days.
- It hasn't had any activity recently.

As this is an automatic procedure, it could of course have something
wrong and probably it would be closing some bugs that are not 
intended by owners and submitters (like you) to be closed, for
example if the RFP is still of your interest, or there has been 
some kind of activity around it. In that case, please reopen the
bug, do it, DO IT NOW! (I don't want to be blamed because of
mass closing and not let people know that they can easily reopen
their bugs ;-).

To re-open it, you simply have to mail control@bugs.debian.org
with a body text like this:

 reopen 282235
 stop

Further comments on the work done in the bug sent to
282235@bugs.debian.org would be truly welcomed.
Anyway, if you have any kind of problems when dealing with
the BTS, feel free to contact me and I'd be more than happy to help
you on this: <damog@debian.org>.

A similar process is being applied to other kind of wnpp bugs.

Thanks for your cooperation,

 -- David Moreno Garza <damog@debian.org>.
 




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