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Bug#405827: Suggestion: BSD-only version that will install with cupsys-client



Package: lprng
Severity: wishlist

We need to use cups together with lprng since the lpr version in the
cupsys-bsd or lpr packages doesn't support -R or -Z. However, due to the
sysv support in lprng (lp, lpstat, cancel), there is a conflict with
cupsys-client.

I have so far solved our problem like this: download the binary lprng
package, unpack (dpkg -x, dpkg -e), remove clashing symlinks and
manpages, edit md5sums and contol (change name), repack with dpkg-deb
and add the package to a local repository.

While this works, it takes som basic knowledge about the packaging
system, som my suggestion would be to make a separate package called
lprng-bsd without cancel, lp, lpstat, which can be installed with
apt together with cupsys-client.




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