[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#668662: Another similar problem

[Adrian Bunk]

severity 668662 serious
retitle cups needs a more strict dependency on libcups2
thanks

I just ran into a similar issue:

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# apt-get install cups cups-bsd cups-client cups-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  foomatic-db-compressed-ppds foomatic-db printer-driver-hpcups hplip cups-pdf
  smbclient
Recommended packages:
  avahi-daemon colord foomatic-filters printer-driver-gutenprint
The following packages will be upgraded:
  cups cups-bsd cups-client cups-common
4 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 44 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,492 kB of archives.
After this operation, 38.9 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main cups-common all 1.5.3-1 [902 kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main cups-bsd amd64 1.5.3-1 [45.4 kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main cups-client amd64 1.5.3-1 [179 kB]
Get:4 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main cups amd64 1.5.3-1 [1,366 kB]
Fetched 2,492 kB in 2s (1,220 kB/s)
Reading changelogs... Done
apt-listchanges: Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 326370 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace cups-common 1.5.2-5 (using .../cups-common_1.5.3-1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement cups-common ...
Preparing to replace cups-bsd 1.5.2-5 (using .../cups-bsd_1.5.3-1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement cups-bsd ...
Preparing to replace cups-client 1.5.2-5 (using .../cups-client_1.5.3-1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement cups-client ...
Preparing to replace cups 1.5.2-5 (using .../cups_1.5.3-1_amd64.deb) ...
[ ok ] Stopping Common Unix Printing System: cupsd.
Unpacking replacement cups ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up cups-common (1.5.3-1) ...
Setting up cups-client (1.5.3-1) ...
Setting up cups-bsd (1.5.3-1) ...
Setting up cups (1.5.3-1) ...
Error: Module usblp is not currently loaded
[....] Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd/usr/sbin/cupsd: symbol lookup error: /usr/sbin/cupsd: undefined symbol: _ppdCacheGetFinishingOptions
. ok 
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I guess the problem is that for all _ppd* symbols 
debian/libcups2.symbols creates only a dependency
on 1.4.0, while they are actually changing?


cu
Adrian

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