Bug 88001 - netpbm update breaks tiff printing
Summary: netpbm update breaks tiff printing
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: netpbm
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Phil Knirsch
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-04-04 14:57 UTC by Brock Sides
Modified: 2015-03-05 01:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-04-29 10:48:25 UTC
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Description Brock Sides 2003-04-04 14:57:50 UTC
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Description of problem:
After updating netpbm to 9.24-9.80.2 from 9.24-6 in accordance with
RHSA-2003:060-01, tiff printing no longer works. (Printing to HP Laserjet
printers using the ljet4 driver, but I don't think that's relevant.) Tiffs print
as "hieroglyphics", just as they do when the netpbm package is not installed.

Downgrading to 9.24-6 fixes the problem.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
9.24-9.80.2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Upgrade netpbm to 9.24-9.80.2
2. Print a tiff using lpr.
    

Actual Results:  Tiff prints out as "hieroglyphics".

Expected Results:  Tiff should print out correctly.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Brock Sides 2003-04-04 15:05:00 UTC
I'm using LPRng, not CUPS.

Comment 2 Brock Sides 2003-04-04 15:16:22 UTC
It appears that some files were left out of netpbm-progs-9.24-9.80.2, notably
/usr/share/printconf/mf_rules/mf50-netpbm_filters.

Comment 3 Phil Knirsch 2003-04-29 10:48:25 UTC
This is an unfortunate sideeffect of the security fixes that went into the
update. Printing pictures directly was considered a huge security risk and
therefor has been removed from the package.

Read ya, Phil




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