On November 4, 2015 11:48:17 PM EST, Jameson Graef Rollins <jroll...@finestructure.net> wrote: >On Wed, Nov 04 2015, Maximiliano Curia <m...@gnuservers.com.ar> wrote: >> Please avoid reopening old bugs, it's better to ask in the debian-kde >users >> list or in the #debian-kde irc channel, if that wouldn't help then >open a new >> one. The issue that was reported here was fixed: cups-bsd was added >as a >> recommends. > >Hi, Max. Thanks for the response. > >I don't see the problem with re-opening old bugs if that is what is >called for. If the problem persists, then clearly the problem was not >fully addressed, which is the situation here. I was experiencing a >failure to print from okular. I did due diligence in searching for an >existing bug that addressed the issue, rather than blindly filing a new >report. I found the bug that I referenced, and since the closing of >that report didn't describe how the problem was fixed I reopened it as >not fixed. I think that was all completely justified. > >> Also, when you send a message to control your mail is not shown in >the bug, >> you need to cc the bug for that. > >I tried cc'ing the bug, but the message was bounced because the bug had >been archived. > >> okular uses the lpr from cups, if you have a different lpr it needs >to accept >> the same parameters. You could try: >> apt install cups-bsd lpr- lprng- gnuspool- > >This might be a fix, but I don't think it's actually a suitable >solution >to the overall problem. Without cups-bsd installed, okular just >silently fails to print. There is no notification to the user other >than a cryptic message to the terminal that would only ever be seen if >you were to launch okular from the terminal (which certainly most >people >don't do). It seems like a better solution could be devised.
Okular already Recommends cups-bsd, so reopening the bug that suggests it be added makes no sense. Scott K