[wellylug] I Found a bug! [a little one in a PPD file for CUPS]

Stephen Judd sljudd at paradise.net.nz
Sat Nov 15 09:06:06 NZDT 2003


On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 23:20, Leslie Boardman wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I was kindly given Brother HL-1240 for free.  I had problems getting it
> to print using cups/foomatic/ghostscript installed using apt-get for
> debian woody. Following the troubleshooting instructions at
> linuxprinting.org I found and fixed the problem.
> 
> The problem is in the HL-1240-hl1250 PPD file.  Line #338 should read
> 'hl1250' not hl1240.
> 
> I have 2 questions:
> 
> 1.  Is it worth telling the debian and/or cups people?  Given that woody
> is now quite old and this is a teeny little problem.
> 2.  Who would I tell?  

It can't hurt. Debian has a tool "reportbug" you can use that will
format your format into the standard debian form and deliver it to the
right places.

Stephen




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