Ubuntu
xorg-server package

/etc/init.d/xprint: 534: Syntax error: Bad substitution

Bug #165060 reported by Glyphobet
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
xorg-server (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Launching firefox from a terminal gives this error:

$ firefox
/etc/init.d/xprint: 534: Syntax error: Bad substitution

Looking at the shell script at /etc/init.d/xprint, it appears that the script is trying to reference the variable $xpstart_remote_server before it defines that variable.

Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)
Changed in xorg-server:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

XPrint is pretty much deprecated, it doesn't even build on Hardy, and the only use-case for it was firefox, which now (FF3) uses a decent printing backend.

Changed in xorg-server:
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
Revision history for this message
Glyphobet (glyphobet) wrote :

Looking again at the /usr/bin/firefox and /usr/bin/thunderbird shell scripts in 7.10, I see that in the last four months they have been modified so that they no longer try to do anything with XPrint, and this syntax error is no longer printed to the screen.

If XPrint is deprecated, shouldn't it be removed from universe? If it's just "pretty much" deprecated, shouldn't bugs still get fixed?

-matt

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