Bug#343349: cupsys-driver-gutenprint: Upgrade fails

[Chris Searle <chris@chrissearle.org>]

Package: cupsys-driver-gutenprint
Version: 4.3.99+cvs20051122.dfsg.1-1
Severity: important


aptitude upgrade fails

First run it complained of being unable to convert the ppd files under
/etc/cups/ppd

There are three files there - 2000P.ppd, PDF.ppd and HP1015.ppd - all
three printers I have configured through the cups web gui. They appear
to be copied from the /usr/share/ppd directory (foomatic ?)

In any case - reason was that they were not guenprint ppds (I'm afraid I don't have the
log for that run).

So - I thought - fair enough - easy to replace since all I used was the
web gui - so I moved them out the way and re-ran the upgrade to get configuration to complete.

Now I get:

No Gutenprint PPD files to update.
Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsdcupsd: Child exited with status 98!
dpkg: error processing cupsys-driver-gutenprint (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
 cupsys-driver-gimpprint:
 cupsys-driver-gimpprint depends on cupsys-driver-gutenprint (>= 4.3.99+cvs20051122.dfsg.1-1); however:
  Package cupsys-driver-gutenprint is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing cupsys-driver-gimpprint (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 cupsys-driver-gutenprint
 cupsys-driver-gimpprint
       
And now I can't get this to complete - and have lost all printing :(

I don't mind having to re-create the printers via the web gui - but
first I need to get config to complete. And it looks like config
requires at least one working ppd in /etc/cups/ppd - so - if you have
any hints on how to complete the dpkg-configure stage I'd appreciate it
:)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO-8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages cupsys-driver-gutenprint depends on:
ii  cupsys       1.1.23-13                   Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libc6        2.3.5-8.1                   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcupsimage 1.1.23-13                   Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsys2   1.1.23-13                   Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libgutenprin 4.3.99+cvs20051122.dfsg.1-1 runtime for the Gutenprint printer
ii  libjpeg62    6b-10                       The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libpng12-0   1.2.8rel-5                  PNG library - runtime
ii  libtiff4     3.7.4-1                     Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  perl         5.8.7-9                     Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  zlib1g       1:1.2.3-8                   compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cupsys-driver-gutenprint recommends:
ii  ghostview [postscript-vi 1.5-28          a PostScript viewer for X11
ii  gnome-gv [postscript-vie 1:2.8.5-2       GNOME PostScript viewer
ii  gs-esp [postscript-viewe 8.15.1.dfsg.1-1 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii  gs-gpl [postscript-viewe 8.15-4          The GPL Ghostscript PostScript int
ii  gv [postscript-viewer]   1:3.6.1-12      PostScript and PDF viewer for X
ii  kghostview [postscript-v 4:3.4.2-2       PostScript viewer for KDE

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