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Bug#682963: marked as done (lsb-printing: should depend on cups or relax to only recommend ghostscript-cups)

Your message dated Sun, 29 Jul 2012 14:16:41 +0200
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has caused the Debian Bug report #682963,
regarding lsb-printing: should depend on cups or relax to only recommend ghostscript-cups
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Package: lsb-printing
Version: 4.1+Debian7
Severity: normal

ghostscript-cups is only generally usable together with cups.

If intent of lsb-printing is to _ensure_ that related packages are
installed, then also depend on cups (and possibly colord as well),
because ghostscript-cups only recommends it.
If intent of lsb-printing is only to _encourage_ that cups is installed
then it makes better sense to only recommend ghostscript-cups, because
it really only makes sense to install together with cups.


Regards,

 - Jonas

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Hi Didier,

On 12-07-29 at 01:16pm, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> Le vendredi, 27 juillet 2012 14.13:33, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit :
> > If intent of lsb-printing is to _ensure_ that related packages are 
> > installed, then also depend on cups (and possibly colord as well), 
> > because ghostscript-cups only recommends it.
> 
> The intent of lsb-printing is to ensure that the mandated LSB 
> interfaces are present. The "Linux Standard Base Printing 
> Specification 4.1" [0] requires libcups, libcupsimage and the 
> foomatic-rip and ghostscript executables.

Oh, ok.  Perhaps the long description could be improved, then (if it 
seems likely that it is not just me misunderstanding LSB from reading 
current long description of the package).


> [0] http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_4.1.0/LSB-Printing/LSB-
> Printing/book1.html

That website seems down at the moment, but from your clarification here
that LSB 4.1 printing is about application interfaces, not user-facing 
daemons, it seems likely that CUPS raster driver (and not CUPS daemon) 
is required.


> On my side, as LSB maintainer, I'm not particularly inclined to change 
> this: lsb-printing is not made to be a useful meta-package per se; its 
> purpose is to provide required program-level interfaces and I see no 
> bug in that regard.

Agreed.  Apart from my suggesting to improve long description, I 
consider this a non-bug, and therefore close it again.


Regards,

 - Jonas

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