Bug#823744: cups-common: after purge: /etc/cups/cupsd.conf not created

[Benoit Panizzon <bp@imp.ch>]

Package: cups-common
Version: 1.7.5-11+deb8u1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I was not able to modify any printers anymore. So somehow my config got broken
and I was not able to figure out why.

Usual way to fix such a problem is to purge the package and config.

apt-get purge --auto-remove cups cups-common

(and then manualy removing /etc/cups/ as the post install script could not remove it because
not empty)

and then: apt-get install cups

This results in a broken installation as /etc/cups/cupsd.conf is not created.

What could be the cause of the problem?

-Benoit-

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

-- no debconf information