Bug#409907: Installing lpr over lprng doesn't work

[Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>]

Package: lpr, lprng
Version: 2006.11.04, 3.8.28dfsg.1-1
Severity: important

Installing lpr (by removing lprng) will leave you with no working lpr
package since /var/spool/lpd is owned daemon.lp with mode 700.  It
should've been lp.lp with mode 2775.

Purging lprng afterwards will remove /var/spool/lpd entirely, leaving
poor lpr without a spool directory at all.

I assume that there are two bugs (haven't checked the code, thus
writing only one bug report):

 1. lpr.postinst should check the permissions of /var/spool/lpd

 2. lprng.postrm should not remove /var/spool/lpd upon purge

Too bad, if only 2 is fixed, reinstalling lpr won't fix the underlying problem

Regards,

	Joey

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