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[Karl Mikaelsson <derfian@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

We have a custom cups backend ("thinlocal") that looks at
FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE to find out whether the submitted job is
application/pdf and if so, take special actions. The PPD for this
backend accepts PDF:s directly through this line:

*cupsFilter: "application/pdf 0 -"

However, FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE is always set to printer/thinlocal, so the
backend can't possibly determine the input format by looking at the
FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE.

This is broken with (at least):
 - Ubuntu 14.04 (cups 1.7.2),
 - Ubuntu 14.10 (cups 1.7.5)
 - Ubuntu 15.04 (cups 2.0.2).

Related bug reports, upstream and elsewhere:
 - https://www.cups.org/str.php?L4494
 - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1010580
 - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149244

** Affects: cups (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Backends can't look at FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE to determine MIME type of
  job

Status in cups package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  We have a custom cups backend ("thinlocal") that looks at
  FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE to find out whether the submitted job is
  application/pdf and if so, take special actions. The PPD for this
  backend accepts PDF:s directly through this line:

  *cupsFilter: "application/pdf 0 -"

  However, FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE is always set to printer/thinlocal, so the
  backend can't possibly determine the input format by looking at the
  FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE.

  This is broken with (at least):
   - Ubuntu 14.04 (cups 1.7.2),
   - Ubuntu 14.10 (cups 1.7.5)
   - Ubuntu 15.04 (cups 2.0.2).

  Related bug reports, upstream and elsewhere:
   - https://www.cups.org/str.php?L4494
   - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1010580
   - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149244

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