Bug#718341: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#71834{1,2}: aptitude install cups-daemon doesn't create 'cupsd.conf' file
Hello Jeffrey,
I am not the maintainer of cups but I do a bit of work with it every so
often.
On Tue 30 Jul 2013 at 17:09:24 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Since it's unclear which distribution your're running (or rather which
> packages are uptodate as some doesn't seem to be uptodate), please
> mention which versions of cups-daemon, cups-client,
> cups-server-common, hplip-cups and cups-common you were trying to
> reinstall, otherwise the cups maintainer can't really decide which
> package versions may be affected (if at all).
The output of
dpkg -l | grep cups
should help to clarify matters.
It is the postinst of cups-daemon which arranges for cupsd.conf to be
written to /etc/cups. I did a quick test on an unstable install; the
postinst is the same as the one in testing so it's not such a bad idea.
My install is used for testing cups so it is has all the printer related
packages on it. 'aptitude purge cups-daemon' wanted to remove cups,
hplip, cups-pdf, printer-driver-gutenprint, printer-driver-hpcups and
printer-driver-postscript-hp. I let it go ahead.
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.
Regards,
Brian.
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