Re: "cupsys" renamed to "cups", please adjust your (build-)depends

[Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>]

Hallo Bernhard,

Bernhard R. Link <brlink@debian.org> wrote:
> * Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org> [080612 18:04]:
>> after many years of calling our CUPS package "cupsys" it has finally
>> be renamed to the proper upstream name "cups", including init scripts,
>> library packages, etc. This makes us compatible again with all the
>> upstream documentation out there, unbreaks the LSB printer driver
>> packages from openprinting.org, reduces confusion with users, and
>> finally makes the libraries Policy compliant (SONAME == package name).
>> Please see http://bugs.debian.org/482296 for details.
>
> How about using this transition to move some binaries between package
> boundaries? Especially having some programs with generic names in -client and
> some in -bsd seem to be a problem for some users (like #405827).
>
> I do not think having lp and lpr in different packages can cause any
> good (and the same for lprm and cancel and so on).

But lpr and lprm aren't commands mentioned in the POSIX standard. The
POSIX standard knows only the lp command.

Schöne Grüße, Jörg.
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