Since app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.02 (?), gs does not provide the "pstoraster" filter anymore, which has been renamed gstoraster. ghostscript-gpl-9.04-r4 provides a symlink /usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstoraster -> /usr/libexec/cups/filter/gstoraster for convenience until all print drivers are fixed. hplip needs to be fixed to use gstoraster instead of pstoraster
I am the maintainer of hplip, so why did you assign this bug to the printing team only?
(In reply to comment #1) > I am the maintainer of hplip, so why did you assign this bug to the printing > team only? Sorry, I assumed you were a member of the printing herd.
Are you sure hplip does not work with gstoraster? The source code of hplip contains no trace of pstoraster besides the foomatic-rip-hplip perl script which is not installed. Try rebuilding cups and test again. See comments 7-9 from bug #372145.
(In reply to comment #3) > Are you sure hplip does not work with gstoraster? The source code of hplip > contains no trace of pstoraster besides the foomatic-rip-hplip perl script > which is not installed. Try rebuilding cups and test again. See comments 7-9 > from bug #372145. I just removed the pstoraster symlink again that I added manually, then rebuilt cups. A simple "lpr /etc/hosts" does not work then anymore and I can find this in the cups/error_log: E [02/Nov/2011:20:12:52 +0100] Unable to execute /usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstoraster: No such file or directory E [02/Nov/2011:20:12:52 +0100] [Job 32] Unable to start filter "pstoraster" - No such file or directory. E [02/Nov/2011:20:12:52 +0100] [Job 32] Stopping job because the scheduler could not execute a filter. Also, rebuilding hplip does not fix it.
Strange, why does "qlist ghostscript-gpl" list pstoraster? Do you remove it manually in the ebuild?
(In reply to comment #5) > Strange, why does "qlist ghostscript-gpl" list pstoraster? Do you remove it > manually in the ebuild? gnaaa that was the recent ghostscript update, that fixed it.
Can you please open a bug about this upstream at https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip and report the bug number here?
Upstream bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/886095
(In reply to comment #8) > Upstream bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/886095 Thanks!
I think we can close this one. The pstoraster -> gstoraster symlink is now in the net-print/cups-filters package and does not seem to go away. Please reopen if you think otherwise.
