[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#668662: Only half-fixed in 1.5.3-2.4

[Adrian Bunk]

reopen 668662
found 668662 1.5.3-2.4
thanks

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 04:08:55PM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> Control: notfound -1 1.5.3-2.4
> 
> Le lundi, 29 octobre 2012 15.04:12, Adrian Bunk a écrit :
> > In 1.5.3-2.4 this bug was correctly fixed in cups-client
> > (libcups2 (= ${binary:Version}), but the fix in cups
> > is not complete (libcups2 (>= ${binary:Version}) - that
> > allows a library upgrade without upgrading cups).
> 
> As NMU'er, I disagree that this is an actual problem: the change ensures that 
> the library is at least at the version of the client (or server) and this is 
> good enough to have all symbols there.

No, it is not.

Please read the whole bug before doing an NMU.

In this case I have already explained it in

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668662#32
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668662#58

As a sidenote, the package in experimental contains the correct fix.

> Having a >= relationship is very usual 
> in application - to - library dependencies

Yes that is very usual, and if you would bother to read and understand 
the whole bug discussion you would understand why this usual case does 
not apply here.

> so I won't push an update to fix 
> this in Wheezy unless that creates a _real_ problem: upgrading libraries and 
> without the binaries of the same package is very unlikely to happen in normal 
> usage as both as binary-arch packages and will end up being available 
> simultaneously on the mirrors. 

They are simultaneously on the mirrors, but not simultaneously on all 
computers due to lack of dependencies.

Both #668662 and #677180 are from users who ran into that problem.

> Hereby untagging this bug as found in the version currently in unstable.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> OdyX

cu
Adrian

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