Bug#419008: [Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#419008: cupsys package not present in apt-get/aptitude

[Kenshi Muto]

severity 419008 normal
tags 419008 + unreproducible moreinfo
thanks

At Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:52:26 -0400,
tallison at tacocat.net wrote:
> Package: cupsys
> Version: stable
> Severity: grave
> Justification: causes non-serious data loss
> 
> recent update to the 4.0 version and several dist-upgrades later
> I am unable to find the cupsys package necessary to install the
> cups server on my printer server.  Other packages are available.
> aptitude displays <none> <none> as the current and available versions.
> 
> clang:~# apt-get install cupsys
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Package cupsys is not available, but is referred to by another package.
> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> is only available from another source
> However the following packages replace it:
>   libcupsys2-dev cupsys-common cupsys-client cupsys-bsd
> E: Package cupsys has no installation candidate

Show us your /etc/apt/sources.list and the result of
"apt-cache policy cupsys".

Thanks,
-- 
Kenshi Muto
kmuto at debian.org