la 6.6.2026 klo 11.14 Martin-Éric Racine ([email protected]) kirjoitti:
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> ke 13.5.2026 klo 12.13 Martin-Éric Racine ([email protected]) 
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> > ti 12.5.2026 klo 8.04 Martin-Éric Racine ([email protected]) 
> > kirjoitti:
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> > > su 3.5.2026 klo 14.07 Martin-Éric Racine ([email protected]) 
> > > kirjoitti:
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> > > > pe 1.5.2026 klo 21.40 Martin-Éric Racine ([email protected]) 
> > > > kirjoitti:
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> > > > > pe 1.5.2026 klo 21.15 Thorsten Alteholz ([email protected]) 
> > > > > kirjoitti:
> > > > > > On 21.04.26 09:57, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > > > > > > CUPS-PDF suddenly fails to install since CUPS 2.4.17, as seen in 
> > > > > > > the
> > > > > > > failed cups-pdf autopkgtest on Salsa. As far as I can tell, this 
> > > > > > > is
> > > > > > > due to CUPS having migrated to a different sysuser creation 
> > > > > > > mechanism,
> > > > > > > which makes the creation of the PDF queue fail in postinst. I'm 
> > > > > > > just
> > > > > > > not sure of how to fix this.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > the autopkgtest of cups-pdf for the uploaded new version of cups 
> > > > > > failed
> > > > > > due to a broken test-script.
> > > > >
> > > > > Which script?
> > > > >
> > > > > > Do you still encounter problems? At least I could install cups-pdf 
> > > > > > and a
> > > > > > PDF queue is available. I can confirm that the problem is not 
> > > > > > related to
> > > > > > systemd.
> > > > >
> > > > > https://ci.debian.net/packages/c/cups-pdf/unstable/amd64/
> > > > >
> > > > > Yes.
> > > >
> > > > https://salsa.debian.org/printing-team/cups-pdf/-/jobs/9523833
> > > >
> > > > Installation still times out asking for the root password, even
> > > > thought postinst shouldn't need it. That postinst script has worked
> > > > flawlessly until recently. It seemingly no longer does, presumably
> > > > because of changes in CUPS.
> > >
> > > Luca Boccassi spotted an upstream change that alters how localhost is
> > > treated since CUPS 2.4.17. That part of postinst is now fixed thanks
> > > to him.
> > >
> > > However, autopkgtest still fails because CUPS upstream also broke
> > > anonymous queues for 2 releases. Fixing that part requires packaging
> > > CUPs 2.4.19 or newer into unstable.
> > >
> > > Last, but not least, the recent changes you made to the PDF printing
> > > test that ships with cups-client essentialy broke the test. It creates
> > > and removes a queue without printing anything. Please revert this.
> >
> > Just to check, I tried to see if I could package the new upstream
> > myself. Nope. Too many of the Debian patches no longer apply. However,
> > I nonetheless ran lintian-brush and pushed that in. I also reverted
> > the change to tests (missing a digit on the Closes statement - sorry
> > about that). While this restores printing the full series of test
> > documents, an unrelated issue appears with
> > debian/tests/cups-basiccommands hanging at the step to create the 2nd
> > test queue.
>
> Thorsten, any comment on the above?

Can we return to this now?

Martin-Éric

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