Bug 16858

Summary:	pstoraster missing
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	w unruh <unruh>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	ghostscript? cups?	CVE:
Status comment:

Description w unruh 2015-09-29 23:31:24 CEST

Description of problem:
 The program (script) pstoraster is missing probably from ghostscript. There are many files in /etc/cups (mime.conv, pstoraster.conv) which reference pstoraster but it is not installed in Mageia 5 nor apparently is it in any package (urpmf pstoraster returns nothing). 

It is there in Ubuntu (a distro I happen to be able to query easily).

I have no idea what this breaks, maybe nothing, but it would seem to be an important cups filter.



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Comment 1 Samuel Verschelde 2015-09-30 09:36:22 CEST

What package provides this file in ubuntu?

Comment 2 w unruh 2015-09-30 18:42:57 CEST

ghostscript-cups
Which seems to supply pxlcolor.ppd, pxlmono.ppd, pstoraster.convs, pdftoraster.convs, pstopxl, pstoraster, pdftoraster.
Mageia seems to have a pdftoraster which is independent of ghostscript.

Comment 3 Samuel Verschelde 2015-09-30 20:50:59 CEST

Assigning to CUPS maintainer Thierry Vignaud who appears to also have updated the ghostscript package in the past.

Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud

Comment 4 w unruh 2015-10-01 01:32:28 CEST

It seems I misunderstand the cups system on Mageia. It appears that the files /etc/cups/mime* are not used at all. Instead the files in /usr/share/cups/mime/* are used to set up the filters etc. There pstoraster is not used. Instead the program gstoraster is used for both ps and pdf files. I think that the /etc/cups/mime.* crept into my MGA5 system from a very old version of cups, and I was fooled by that.  cups now seems to use /usr/share/cups as its configuration for things like mime.{convs,types} etc. 

I would regard this as Invalid. Sorry.
(Ubuntu cups on my friend's system seems to do things very differently )

Comment 5 Thierry Vignaud 2015-10-01 06:57:15 CEST

Closing then

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID