Bug#718341: marked as done ('aptitude install cups-daemon' doesn't create 'cupsd.conf' file)

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.8.2-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Due to the pain of CUPS, I needed to reinstall my printers and that started with purging CUPS and reinstalling those related packages. I backed up the /etc/cups/ folder and ran 'aptitude purge cups-daemon', and then tired to install with 'aptitude install cups cups-daemon cups-client cups-server-common hplip-cups cups-common'. DPKG wasn't able to configure CUPS due to a missing cupsd.conf file (which is in the package that aptitude was installing, so it should not be missing).

I used 'apt-get install cups cups-daemon cups-client cups-server-common hplip-cups cups-common' instead and everything worked.

Aptitude should have unpacked the file contents as expected and as I've experienced in the past. The inability of a package manager to install necessary files seems like the tool isn't doing its job correctly.

Thanks for Debian!

-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.8.2 compiled at Nov 7 2012 07:08:03
Compiler: g++ 4.7.2
Compiled against:
apt version 4.12.0
NCurses version 5.9
libsigc++ version: 2.2.10
Ept support enabled.
Gtk+ support disabled.
Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20110404
cwidget version: 0.5.16
Apt version: 4.12.0

aptitude linkage:
        linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff1ddff000)
        libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0x00007fdf2d9d8000)
        libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fdf2d7a8000)
        libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007fdf2d57e000)
        libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fdf2d379000)
        libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007fdf2d079000)
        libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 (0x00007fdf2cdd8000)
        libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007fdf2c9f3000)
        libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fdf2c7dc000)
        libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007fdf2c530000)
        libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 (0x00007fdf2c515000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fdf2c2f9000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fdf2bff1000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fdf2bcf3000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fdf2badd000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fdf2b730000)
        libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fdf2b52d000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fdf2b329000)
        libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fdf2b118000)
        libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fdf2af13000)
        librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fdf2ad0a000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fdf2e373000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii aptitude-common           0.6.8.2-1
ii libapt-pkg4.12            0.9.7.7
ii libboost-iostreams1.49.0 1.49.0-3.2
ii libc6                     2.17-7
ii libcwidget3               0.5.16-3.4
ii libept1.4.12              1.0.9
ii libgcc1                   1:4.7.0-8
ii libncursesw5              5.9-10
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.2.10-0.2
ii libsqlite3-0              3.7.13-1
ii libstdc++6                4.7.0-8
ii libtinfo5                 5.9-10
ii libxapian22               1.2.12-2
ii zlib1g                    1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn apt-xapian-index                <none>
pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc <none>
pn libparse-debianchangelog-perl   <none>
ii sensible-utils                  0.0.7

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn debtags <none>
ii tasksel 3.14+nmu1

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