[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#482296: Bug#482296: Rename package "cupsys" to "cups"

[Jeff Licquia]

Till Kamppeter wrote:
> The cupsys packages (and all occurences of "cupsys" in the names of
> other packages) should be renamed to "cups". First, no one who I have
> asked could tell me why in Debian and derivatives the CUPS package is
> called cupsys and not cups. Second, this is very awkward when it comes
> to user support (You do not know the user's distro and tell him
> "/etc/init.d/cups restart") and when trying to create
> distro-independent LSB-based printing-related packages, like printer
> drivers from a printer manufacturer.
> 
> I am the leader of the OpenPrinting project at the Linux Foundation
> and I have developed the LSB DDK to create distro-independent driver
> packages. The RPM macros which I have created to generate maintainer
> scripts which work with both Debian and non-Debian distros look really
> ugly. So cupsys should really be renamed.

As the person responsible for the name of the package, I thought I 
should comment.

This was discussed on debian-legal, way back.  Here's the start of the 
thread:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/1999/06/msg00182.html

Note that I specifically was warned against using the name "cups" for 
the package.  I even recall that some people thought "cupsys" was too 
close to "cups" for comfort, though I don't see those responses in the 
thread.

I think we've had more experience with this issue since (Iceweasel), and 
the upstream maintainer has shown reasonableness regarding this issue. 
So I wouldn't object to name changes.

No comment on the "important" priority, though. :-)