Comment 4 for bug 627648

This bug also causes me problems with machines I support. The default should *always* be the system-wide settings that Ubuntu honour, and at the very least it should not reset during an 'upgrade'. This 'reset to US paper size' arrogance is a major irritation and causes problems for users who print and get nothing but an error message telling them to change paper size while blocking the network printers job queue until somebody clears it.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS
Release: 10.04

$ apt-cache policy thunderbird
thunderbird:
  Installed: 14.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
  Candidate: 14.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 14.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Packages

$ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 14.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
  Candidate: 14.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 14.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages