Bug#799259: cups-filters: Messy depenedencies between cups-filters and foomatic-filters...
Package: cups-filters
Version: 1.0.61-5+deb8u1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
i've just installed my first 'jessue' server, and trying to configure CUPS
i've it a trouble.
Little note: i've found in past year (and debian version) some trouble
handling some printer: it is normally due to firmware or driver (windows
driver) bugs, but in some case i use the 'beh' backend (backend error
handler, http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/database/backenderrorhandler)
to cure or at least circumvent that trouble.
Normally, on older debian revision, beh get installed by default. Not on
jessie.
Looking on file search:
https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=beh&mode=path&suite=stable&arch=any
i've found that the 'beh' backend is in the 'foomatic-filters' package.
Good.
But:
root@brucaliffo:/tmp/mailto# LANG=C apt-get install foomatic-filters
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
cups cups-filters printer-driver-gutenprint
The following NEW packages will be installed:
foomatic-filters
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 159 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2673 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Not so good. The trouble seems to come from a dependency mess, eg:
root@brucaliffo:/tmp/mailto# apt-cache show cups | egrep "^(Depends|Recommends|Conflicts):"
Depends: libavahi-client3 (>= 0.6.16), libavahi-common3 (>= 0.6.16), libc6 (>= 2.16), libcups2 (= 1.7.5-11+deb8u1), libcupscgi1 (>= 1.4.2), libcupsimage2 (>= 1.4.0), libcupsmime1 (>= 1.4.0), libcupsppdc1 (>= 1.4.0), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), libusb-1.0-0 (>= 2:1.0.8), debconf (>= 1.2.9) | debconf-2.0, libc-bin (>= 2.13), cups-core-drivers (>= 1.7.5-11+deb8u1), cups-daemon (>= 1.7.5-11+deb8u1), poppler-utils (>= 0.12), procps, ghostscript (>= 9.02~), lsb-base (>= 3.2-14~), cups-common (>= 1.7.5-11+deb8u1), cups-server-common (>= 1.7.5-11+deb8u1), cups-client (>= 1.7.5-11+deb8u1), cups-ppdc, cups-filters (>= 1.0.24-3~)
Recommends: avahi-daemon, colord, cups-filters (>= 1.0.42) | foomatic-filters (>= 4.0), printer-driver-gutenprint, cups-filters (>= 1.0.36) | ghostscript-cups (>= 9.02~)
root@brucaliffo:/tmp/mailto# apt-cache show cups-filters | egrep "^(Depends|Recommends|Conflicts):"
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libcups2 (>= 1.7.0), libcupsfilters1 (>= 1.0.58), libcupsimage2 (>= 1.4.0), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.11), libfontembed1 (>= 1.0.31), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libijs-0.35 (>= 0.35), liblcms2-2 (>= 2.2+git20110628), libpoppler46 (>= 0.26.5), libqpdf13 (>> 5.0.0~), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), cups-filters-core-drivers (>= 1.0.61-5+deb8u1), bc, ghostscript (>= 9.02~)
Recommends: colord
Conflicts: foomatic-filters, ghostscript-cups
root@brucaliffo:/tmp/mailto# apt-cache show foomatic-filters | egrep "^(Depends|Recommends|Conflicts):"
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, ucf (>= 0.30)
Recommends: cups-client | lpr | lprng | rlpr, ghostscript, cups | enscript | a2ps | mpage, poppler-utils (>= 0.11.2), colord
eg, cups both depends and recommend 'cups-filters', cups-filters conflicts
with foomatic-filters and foomatic-filters recommends cups.
Seems so strange to me... how can i install the 'beh' backend?
Thanks.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages cups-filters depends on:
ii bc 1.06.95-9
ii cups-filters-core-drivers 1.0.61-5+deb8u1
ii ghostscript 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u1
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u1
ii libcups2 1.7.5-11+deb8u1
ii libcupsfilters1 1.0.61-5+deb8u1
ii libcupsimage2 1.7.5-11+deb8u1
ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.3
ii libfontembed1 1.0.61-5+deb8u1
ii libgcc1 1:4.9.2-10
ii libijs-0.35 0.35-10
ii liblcms2-2 2.6-3+b3
ii libpoppler46 0.26.5-2
ii libqpdf13 5.1.2-2
ii libstdc++6 4.9.2-10
Versions of packages cups-filters recommends:
ii colord 1.2.1-1+b2
Versions of packages cups-filters suggests:
pn foomatic-db-compressed-ppds | foomatic-db <none>
-- no debconf information
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