Re: Debian CUPS transition in progress
Hello, Martin-Éric. You wrote on Planet (http://bit.ly/TUFYI):
> Since Lenny was the first Debian release to feature CUPS under its new
> package naming strategy, I started going through 'rdepends' results to
> see which packages in Squeeze still present dependencies for *cupsys*
> packages.
> Much to my amazement, there's quite many.
> If you are the maintainer of a package that still has those
> dependencies, please fix them ASAP. Alternately, if you're aware of
> any favorite package that does, please do not hesitate at filing a
> patch to help the maintainer update their debian/control.
> Comes June 2009, transitional CUPS packages will be removed from our
> debian/control.
As a maintainer interested in dropping transitional packages from a
package of yours, the onus is on you to communicate and coordinate with
your reverse dependencies to get such obsolete dependencies to disappear.
Planet Debian *does* *not* constitute an appropriate forum for such
communication.
Given the small set of packages involved, at least at this stage, you
should be filing bugs against the following packages directly, asking
that they stop depending on libcupsys2-dev, and start depending on
libcups2-dev instead:
libfox1.4-dev
libfox-1.6-dev
libqt3-mt-dev
And this package should depend on cups-bsd instead of cupsys-bsd:
gpr
Additionally, you should ensure that the following packages get rebuilt
before dropping the transitional libcupsys2 package, eg. by asking the
release team to schedule Bin-NMUs for you:
rezound
python-cups
(libfox1.4) |
(libfox-1.6-0) | Would be solved by the sourceful upload mentioned above
I hope you will be filing the required bug reports now, and will ensure
they are fixed before dropping the transitional packages (with NMUs, if
necessary).
Do not hesitate to reply if you have any doubts about the process, or
ask any of your co-maintainers, particularly Martin Pitt.
Cheers,
--
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- Always.
-- Rory and Lorelai
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