[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#427617: Bug#427617: cupsys-bsd: on upgrade remove lpr package; obscure warning.

[Martin-Éric Racine]

On 6/5/07, Leonardo Boselli <leo at dicea.unifi.it> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Leonardo Boselli wrote:
> > On two lenny computer a plain update bring in cupsys-lpd that in turn
> > removed lpr service.
>
> OOOOOPS :
> Read: "On lenny a plain update brings in cupsys-bsd that in turn removes
> lpr package and consequently the lpd services."
> (note also that it removes the executable, but leaves the script in
> etc/init.d)

Thanks for this extra detail.

cupsys-bsd indeed conflicts with lpr, because it provides the same
service, that is a BSD printing service on port 515. additionally, it
provides BSD-style commands to manipulate the printer spool.

The way dpkg works, a package removal only removes the binaries; it
leaves the startup scripts and configuration files in place.  If you
want to purge the scripts and configuration files too, you need to
manually specify -P for dpkg or --purge for APT's removal command.

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Martin-Éric Racine
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