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Bug#718341: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#71834{1,2}: aptitude install cups-daemon doesn't create 'cupsd.conf' file



I've been working in Debian for years, professionally for the last 8+ years, so I too was frustrated and not understanding why this was the case that 'aptitude' wasn't giving the files on this Sid system.  I had to use 'apt-file search cupsd.conf' to verify I was installing the correct packages, but still no fix — 'aptitude' wasn't doing what I expected.

> It is the postinst of cups-daemon which arranges for cupsd.conf to be
> written to /etc/cups
Yes, and the postinst kept failing due to the cupds.conf file being missing.  I no longer have the specific message and printing is a lot of work to re-set-up every time Cups decides to break my printing (which is often), and I understand that the Sid/Unstable branch shouldn't be used in mission-critical setups, but this is my desktop so I'm ok with some breakages.  I've not reported bugs against cups because breaking things seems to be the norm.  But against Aptitude, I figured that would be wanted to be known.  I don't have the time or my wife the energy for me to uninstall and reinstall and reconfigure printers.

Cups packages, per the request, are:
"
root@bigboi:~# dpkg -l | grep cups
ii  cups                                  1.6.2-10                           amd64        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server
ii  cups-browsed                          1.0.34-3                           amd64        OpenPrinting CUPS Filters - cups-browsed
ii  cups-bsd                              1.6.2-10                           amd64        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD commands
ii  cups-client                           1.6.2-10                           amd64        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - client programs (SysV)
ii  cups-common                           1.6.2-10                           all          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - common files
ii  cups-daemon                           1.6.2-10                           amd64        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - daemon
ii  cups-filters                          1.0.34-3                           amd64        OpenPrinting CUPS Filters
ii  cups-pk-helper                        0.2.3-3                            amd64        PolicyKit helper to configure cups with fine-grained privileges
ii  cups-ppdc                             1.5.3-2.15                         amd64        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - PPD manipulation utilities
ii  cups-server-common                    1.6.2-10                           all          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server common files
ii  ghostscript-cups                      9.05~dfsg-6.3                      amd64        interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF - CUPS filters
ii  hplip-cups                            3.13.4-1                           all          transitional dummy package for hpcups printer driver
ii  libcups2:amd64                        1.6.2-10                           amd64        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - Core library
ii  libcupscgi1:amd64                     1.6.2-10                           amd64        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - CGI library
rc  libcupsdriver1:amd64                  1.5.3-2.15                         amd64        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - Driver library
ii  libcupsfilters1:amd64                 1.0.18-2.1                         amd64        OpenPrinting CUPS Filters - Shared library
ii  libcupsimage2:amd64                   1.6.2-10                           amd64        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - Raster image library
ii  libcupsmime1:amd64                    1.6.2-10                           amd64        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - MIME library
ii  libcupsppdc1:amd64                    1.6.2-10                           amd64        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - PPD manipulation library
ii  printer-driver-hpcups                 3.13.4-1+b1                        amd64        HP Linux Printing and Imaging - CUPS Raster driver (hpcups)
ii  python-cups                           1.9.48-1.1                         amd64        Python bindings for CUPS
ii  python-cupshelpers                    1.3.7-4                            all          Python utility modules around the CUPS printing system
"


Thank you,

Jeffrey



Jeffrey Thomas
  Manager, IT
  The Nerdery
  952.948.1211 // office
  952.567.6346 // direct
  http://www.nerdery.com/Jt


On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue 30 Jul 2013 at 22:17:13 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:

> Then I installed all these removed packages with aptitude. A new
> cupsd.conf was created. Jeffrey, I'd recommend reviewing what you did
> and trying to reproduce the behaviour you describe.

Any news on this?

Regards,

Brian.


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