Bug#590436: Why does cups-bsd depend on update-inetd?

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

On Mon 26 Jul 2010 at 11:32:20 +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:

> The subject says it all.
> There's nothing in cups-bsd that could be a daemon:

Not now there isn't.

In the beginning cups-bsd was seen as the package to contain the cups-bsd
daemon and configure it:

   cupsys (1.1.0-0b3d1) unstable; urgency=low

     * New upstream version.
     * Daemon 'cups-lpd' (new to this version) added to cupsys-bsd, with
       appropriate update-inetd calls, so cupsys-bsd is now a complete
       replacement for lpr.

> $ dpkg -L cups-bsd | grep cups-lpd
> /usr/share/man/man8/cups-lpd.8.gz
> /usr/share/man/fr/man8/cups-lpd.8.gz
> /usr/share/man/de/man8/cups-lpd.8.gz
> 
> Perhaps there is some packaging error that put /usr/lib/cups/daemon/cups-lpd
> into the main cups package?

Then the view changed:

   cupsys (1.3.7-5) unstable; urgency=low

     * debian/cupsys-bsd.install: Remove daemon/cups-lpd. It really does not
       belong into -bsd.

>                             In any case, the manpages should be together with
> the executable file, no?

The man pages seem to have started life in the cupsys package because:

   cupsys (1.1.12-4) unstable; urgency=low

     * Move cups-lpd man page to cupsys-bsd.  Closes: #122311.

Then the executable was moved! Perhaps one day it will be reunited with
its manuals and they will live happily together ever after. :)

Regards,

Brian.