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Package: emacs24
Version: 24.4+1-5
Severity: normal
I am not sure this is a bug in emacs as much as in lpr(1), but since
Emacs is the *only* program showing this behavior, I figured I would
try my luck here first.
By default, in Emacs 24 on Jessie, printing fails. If I do "M-x
print-buffer", I get this in *Messages*:
Send current buffer to default printer? y
Spooling...
user-error: Spooling...done: lpr: cannot open printer description file
And indeed, lpr(1) on the commandline fails similarly:
$ echo test | lpr
lpr: cannot open printer description file
lp(1) works fine, however:
$ echo test | lp
request id is HP_LaserJet_1012-59 (0 file(s))
So a workaround for me is to customize the lpr-command variable *and*
switches, otherwise you get:
user-error: Spooling...done: /usr/bin/lp: Error - unknown option "J".
The customize code is this:
(custom-set-variables
'(lpr-add-switches nil)
'(lpr-command "lp"))
I am not sure why emacs tries to use lpr, or why it is even
installed. Aptitude tells me it is a hard dependency of a2ps and a
Suggests of imagemagick. I am not sure why a2ps is installed, but I
seem to have installed it manually for some reason... but even if i
uninstall it, Emacs then fails even more badly because lpr is not
installed!
Can't we have more appropriate, configuration-less defaults here?
I am assuming here that everyone is now using CUPS to configure their
printers. I have been using Debian for about a decade and would have
absolutely zero idea on how to configure my HP printer with LPR. In
fact, I am pretty sure no one would actually want to bother with that.
Maybe I'm missing something obvious here.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.4
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500,
'stable'), (1, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages emacs24 depends on:
ii emacs24-bin-common 24.4+1-5
ii gconf-service 3.2.6-3
ii libacl1 2.2.52-2
ii libasound2 1.0.28-1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.14.0-1
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u4
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.14.0-2.1+deb8u1
ii libcairo2 1.14.0-2.1+deb8u1
ii libdbus-1-3 1.8.20-0+deb8u1
ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.3
ii libfreetype6 2.5.2-3+deb8u1
ii libgconf-2-4 3.2.6-3
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.31.1-2+deb8u4
ii libgif4 4.1.6-11+deb8u1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.1-1+b1
ii libgnutls-deb0-28 3.3.8-6+deb8u3
ii libgomp1 4.9.2-10
ii libgpm2 1.20.4-6.1+b2
ii libgtk-3-0 3.14.5-1+deb8u1
ii libice6 2:1.0.9-1+b1
ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:1.3.1-12
ii libm17n-0 1.6.4-3
ii libmagickcore-6.q16-2 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u1
ii libmagickwand-6.q16-2 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u1
ii libotf0 0.9.13-2
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.8-3
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.36.8-3
ii libpng12-0 1.2.50-2+deb8u2
ii librsvg2-2 2.40.5-1+deb8u1
ii libselinux1 2.3-2
ii libsm6 2:1.2.2-1+b1
ii libtiff5 4.0.3-12.3+deb8u1
ii libtinfo5 5.9+20140913-1+b1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-3
ii libxft2 2.3.2-1
ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.3-1+b1
ii libxml2 2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u1
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.11-1+b1
ii libxrandr2 2:1.4.2-1+b1
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.8-1+b1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
emacs24 recommends no packages.
Versions of packages emacs24 suggests:
ii emacs24-common-non-dfsg 24.4+1-2
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Version: 24.5+1-11+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package emacs24 has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/871627
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.
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