[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#510882: Bug#510882: cups-pdf: False dependency on cups-client breaks mixed CUPS/LPRng installations

[Martin-Éric Racine]

severity 510882 wishlist
thanks

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Steve Kostecke <steve at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: cups-pdf
> Version: 2.4.8-3
> Severity: important
>
> I run a mixed LPRng and CUPS printing environment.
>
> After upgrading from Etch to Lenny I discovered that lprng was removed
> because cups-pdf now depends on cups-client.

This package conflict makes sense, because both packages provide
similarly-named command line tools to manipulate /etc/printcaps and
similar global printing configuration files.

> I modified the cups-pdf package to remove the dependency on cup-client
> and now have it installed alongside lprng.
>
> Please remove this un-needed dependency or, at least, change it to
> recommends.

Actually, the dependency is needed to implement automatic addition of
the PDF queue via maintainer scripts. This was already done in the
Ubuntu package and is work in progress in the Debian package also.

Anyhow, as a situation where several printing daemons are installed on
the same host is extremely rare, whereas a situation where someone
needs to manipulate the CUPS queue is more common, I'm gonna downgrade
this to a wishlist severity and revisit it once Lenny is released.

Martin-Éric