Bug#1054540: cups-filters: Does not automatically find proper liblouis braille tables

2023-10-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.6 -- no debconf information -- Samuel --- Pour une évaluation indépendante, transparente et rigoureuse ! Je soutiens la Commission d'Évaluation de l'Inria. commit 0707c9645039ed872dd0a1cc970388f1ee4aa8a5 Author: Samuel Thibault Date: Wed Oct 25 14:20:38 2023 +02

Bug#995792: #995792 - please unbreak printing text files

2022-10-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Steve McIntyre, le lun. 24 oct. 2022 10:16:39 +0100, a ecrit: > This bug just bit me, and I'm disappointed nothing appears to have > been done here to remedy this. I had actually not seen the bug report, the title of the bug report didn't catch my eyes. Thus why it hadn't been fixed so far. Samu

Bug#995792: printing text files

2022-10-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Thorsten Alteholz, le sam. 29 oct. 2022 22:43:02 +, a ecrit: > The problem seems to be that it was installed on a system without need for > it. That's just a small part of the problem. The real problem is a bug in the matching rule, which I have now fixed. > Wouldn't there be a better

Bug#913120: cups-filters: please favor graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat over imagemagick

2018-11-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Moritz Mühlenhoff, le mer. 07 nov. 2018 23:04:55 +0100, a ecrit: > In this specific case other, more promising hardening options would be: > - IM is only used for the braille support, so this could be split into > a separate binary package, reducing the attack footprint for the non-braill

Bug#911522: ghostscript: FTBFS on amd64, i386

2018-10-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jonas Smedegaard, le dim. 21 oct. 2018 12:56:02 +0200, a ecrit: > I am clueless why that happens. Not sure, but I suspect it is a > spurious error happening occationally and if so that a workaround is > to simply request a binNMU. > > Help dearly appreciated either requesting a binNMU (by someo

Bug#900527: scribus: PDF files can't be imported any more

2018-05-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mattia Rizzolo, le jeu. 31 mai 2018 22:45:49 +0200, a ecrit: > On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 10:21:49PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > After some upgrade in testing (no earlier than around february, it did > > work at the time), I can't import PDF files in scribus any mor

Bug#896875: cups-filters: Please recommend lynx

2018-04-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: cups-filters Version: 1.20.3-1+b1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hello, So as to be able to emboss .html files, the lynx packages needs to be installed, so it would be useful that cups-filters at least recommends it, as the attached patch does. Thanks, Samuel -- System Information: Deb

Bug#878867: cups-filters: unreadable file /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-brf

2018-03-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: tags -1 + upstream Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/pull/32 Didier 'OdyX' Raboud, on jeu. 19 oct. 2017 21:04:17 +0200, wrote: > Le mardi, 17 octobre 2017, 23.08:52 h CEST Samuel Thibault a écrit : > > Yes, this is on purpose, just l

Bug#878867: cups-filters: unreadable file /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-brf

2017-10-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Alexander Kurtz, on mar. 17 oct. 2017 12:33:46 +0200, wrote: > Your package ships a file in /usr which is unreadable for regular > users, see the subject line for more details! Yes, this is on purpose, just like in the cups-pdf package: it has to be run as root. Which error/failure/warnin

Re: cups-filters 1.17.7 released!

2017-09-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Till Kamppeter, on lun. 18 sept. 2017 09:37:37 -0300, wrote: > diff --exclude .svn --exclude .git --exclude CVS --exclude .hg -ur > /tmp/cups-filters-1.17.5/debian/cups-filters.install > debian/cups-filters.install > --- debian/cups-filters.install 2017-08-21 11:33:48.0 +020

Bug#873606: cups: 2.2.4 stopped being able to interact with our cups server

2017-08-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Brian Potkin, on mar. 29 août 2017 14:36:28 +0100, wrote: > I was just about to post in reply to M G Berberich's mail to #870463 > when this one arrived. My suggestion was (and still is) that the > ~/.cups/lpoptions be moved and the PRINTER (or LPDEST) environment > variable be set instead

Bug#873606: cups: 2.2.4 stopped being able to interact with our cups server

2017-08-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: cups Version: 2.2.4-1 Severity: important Hello, Since the upgrade to 2.2.4-1 (more precisely, it is the upgrade of libcups2 which breaks things), I'm not able to print any more: [with 2.2.3-2] $ lpq print2me is ready no entries [with 2.2.4-1] $ lpq lpq: Error - PRINTER environment var

Bug#823110: cups-filters: Versioned dependency on imagemagick makes using graphicsmagick harder

2017-05-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
Yuri D'Elia, on mer. 31 mai 2017 12:59:40 +0200, wrote: > My main point was that graphicsmagick/imagemagick is only used for those > filters. Aaah... imagemagick is currently a Depends. In everything I said I assumed it was a Recommends already, since you mentioned dependencies for braille where

Bug#823110: cups-filters: Versioned dependency on imagemagick makes using graphicsmagick harder

2017-05-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Versioned Provides are now supported, so graphicsmagick can just Provide the appropriate version of imagemagick. Yuri D'Elia, on lun. 29 mai 2017 01:10:04 +0200, wrote: > cups-filters depends on imagemagik for "convert" alone, and it's used only in: > > /var/lib/cups/filter/imagetobrf >

Bug#813094: Split braille support into a separate package

2016-02-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud, on Sun 14 Feb 2016 00:06:43 +0100, wrote: > Le lundi, 1 février 2016, 12.00:53 Yuri D'Elia a écrit : > > On 01/02/16 11:58, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > >> The double recommend/suggests is a bit wonky. > > >> Maybe you shoul

Bug#813094: Split braille support into a separate package

2016-02-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Yuri D'Elia, on Mon 01 Feb 2016 11:50:00 +0100, wrote: > On 01/02/16 09:14, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >> On top of that, since scripts themselves can probe if louis is not > >> available, > >> there's no need for the dependency and fallback mechanism: just &

Bug#813094: Split braille support into a separate package

2016-02-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Yuri D'Elia, on Fri 29 Jan 2016 12:46:45 +0100, wrote: > It would be nice if you could split off braille support into a separate > package, as originally mentioned in #808057. Again, splitting into a separate package makes it more difficult to people to find it. People who already have a h

Re: printer-driver-indexbraille_1.2.2-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

2016-01-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Thorsten Alteholz, on Fri 22 Jan 2016 00:00:22 +, wrote: > please note in your debian/copyright that > printer-driver-indexbraille/filter/index-direct-braille.c > is only GPL3+ Oops. Sorry, since upstream told me the whole thing was GPL2+ and they were the only author, I assumed they

Re: [Printing-architecture] [PATCH] braille: Checking for tool presence

2016-01-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
The attached patch makes cups-filter able to use lou_translate from liblouis-bin (and warn about that) when file2brl from liblouisutdml-bin is not available. Samuel === modified file 'filter/braille/filters/texttobrf.in' --- filter/braille/filters/texttobrf.in 2016-01-19 22:48:12 + +++ filter/

Re: cups-filters 1.7.0 released!

2016-01-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Till Kamppeter, on Wed 20 Jan 2016 20:33:46 -0200, wrote: > Thanks. So if I add liblouis-bin to Depends: and move liblouisutdml-bin to > Suggests: does everything "just work"? Or does it need changes in the > upstream code? It needs changes. I'll post a patch. Samuel

Re: cups-filters 1.7.0 released!

2016-01-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Till Kamppeter, on Wed 20 Jan 2016 19:58:15 -0200, wrote: > Samuel, for what is file2brl exactly good for and how important is it for > the Braille printing support of cups-filters? It is not strictly essential, in that liblouis-bin could be used instead to get the braille translation. That will

Re: cups-filters 1.7.0 released!

2016-01-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Till Kamppeter, on Mon 18 Jan 2016 20:22:06 -0200, wrote: > This release introduced the separation of the Braille > support so that at Ubuntu we can carry it in Universe while we carry the > rest of cups-filters in Main. What is the reason of not including it in Main? Samuel

Re: cups-filters, imagemagick and graphicsmagick

2015-12-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Till Kamppeter, on Mon 28 Dec 2015 22:53:16 -0200, wrote: > as X is useless for blind people It is not, far from it. One can't really use the Internet nowadays with all the mandatory javascript stuff without using a graphical browser like firefox, etc. Samuel

Re: documents and braille [Was: cups-filters 1.4.0 released!]

2015-12-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Till Kamppeter, on Mon 21 Dec 2015 10:47:27 -0200, wrote: > First, I would not call the two modes "ink" and "braille", but something > like "Original layout" and "Braille-optimized layout". Ok. > Second, LibreOffice does not send .odt files when clicking "Print" in the > print dialog. By

documents and braille [Was: cups-filters 1.4.0 released!]

2015-12-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Till Kamppeter, on Mon 14 Dec 2015 23:02:48 -0200, wrote: > Applications usually send only PDF when printing, CUPS usually > accepts also images and plain text which is also covered by these. I'm wondering about this. Ideally the scenario that should work is: - user opens a libreoffice d

Re: cups braille dependencies [Was: Please release the cups-filters 1.4.0-2 Debian package]

2015-12-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Not much reaction on this issue for now :) Samuel Thibault, on Tue 15 Dec 2015 19:56:54 +0100, wrote: > - device-dependent drivers, which are basically simple shell scripts or > C files, which don't depend on anything beyond bash and libc > > - device-independent filter

Re: Completely confused: Upstream home of Braille driver: cups-filters or separate?

2015-12-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Till Kamppeter, on Tue 15 Dec 2015 22:18:39 -0200, wrote: > So the Braille support in cups-filters will continue Yes, I plan to make all my developments, contact manufacturers, etc. in cups-filters. > as it is now and printer-driver-indexbraille will make more Braille > embossers being supported.

Re: Completely confused: Upstream home of Braille driver: cups-filters or separate?

2015-12-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Till Kamppeter, on Tue 15 Dec 2015 22:05:56 -0200, wrote: > I got an e-mail about the upload process of a package named > printer-driver-indexbraille, two days after completing the integration of > Braille drivers into cups-filters 1.4.0. These two things are very different. The support I

Re: cups-filters 1.4.0 released!

2015-12-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Till Kamppeter, on Mon 14 Dec 2015 23:02:48 -0200, wrote: > I have also looked into the Debian package of liblouisutdml-bin and found > out that it also depends on antiword and ooo2dbk but I wonder why, as there > is no reference to these in any non-documentation file of the liblouisutdml > source

cups braille dependencies [Was: Please release the cups-filters 1.4.0-2 Debian package]

2015-12-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Giving some background for people who haven't had the whole story. I've recently played with embossers, and written drivers for CUPS, so that they can be used in a very standard way just like any printer. It happens that they already got integrated to cups-filters, and already got uploaded to Deb

Re: Please release the cups-filters 1.4.0-2 Debian package

2015-12-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Till Kamppeter, on Tue 15 Dec 2015 15:26:36 -0200, wrote: > In the Debian GIT repo for cups-filters I have split the Braille printing > stuff into its own binary package cups-filters-braille, to fix > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=808057 > > and to easily fit the new

Re: cups-filters 1.4.0 released!

2015-12-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Till Kamppeter, on Mon 14 Dec 2015 21:52:45 -0200, wrote: > Note that this time I have already done everything in the Debian GIT > repository, as for the Braille embossing support there is a new dependency > on liblouis and a lot of new files. Just a little more change: the cups-filters pa