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. Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce:
What package provides this file in ubuntu?
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.
Assigning to CUPS maintainer Thierry Vignaud who appears to also have updated the ghostscript package in the past.
Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud
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 )
Closing then
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => INVALID