[Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#640939: hplip-cups: asks for root password when cups updates PPDs

[brian m. carlson]

Package: hplip-cups
Version: 3.11.7-1
Severity: important

My server has hplip-cups installed.  Today, when I was trying to upgrade
some packages, the update stopped and printed "Password for root on
localhost?"  The prompt did not respond to Ctrl-C or Ctrl-\, but
pressing Enter made it continue.  There's really no reason to ask for
the root password since by definition an upgrade with apt is done as
root.  Also, my system does have a root password, but some are
sudo-only.

Partial Transcript:

  Preparing to replace poppler-data 0.4.4-1 (using .../poppler-data_0.4.5-1_all.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement poppler-data ...
  Processing triggers for man-db ...
  Processing triggers for install-info ...
  Processing triggers for cups ...
  Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd.
  Updating PPD files for foomatic-db ...
  Updating PPD files for foomatic-db-engine ...
  Updating PPD files for hpijs ...
  Updating PPD files for hpijs-ppds ...
  Updating PPD files for hplip-cups ...
  Password for root on localhost? 
  Updating PPD files for openprinting-ppds ...
  Setting up libc6-i386 (2.13-19) ...

If this bug is in some other package, please feel free to reassign it
there.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-rc4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages hplip-cups depends on:
ii  cups                 1.5.0-5    
ii  cups-ppdc [cupsddk]  1.5.0-5    
ii  cupsddk              1.5.0-5    
ii  ghostscript-cups     9.02~dfsg-3
ii  libc6                2.13-19    
ii  libcups2             1.5.0-5    
ii  libcupsimage2        1.5.0-5    
ii  libgcc1              1:4.6.1-9  
ii  libhpmud0            3.11.7-1   
ii  libjpeg8             8c-2       
ii  libssl1.0.0          1.0.0d-3   
ii  libstdc++6           4.6.1-9    

hplip-cups recommends no packages.

Versions of packages hplip-cups suggests:
pn  hplip      3.11.7-1
pn  hplip-doc  <none>  

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