Re: Re: Bug#592900: Updating system-config-printer
Hi Josselin,
On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 02:35:39PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le vendredi 03 septembre 2010 à 13:18 +0200, Guido Günther a écrit :
> > > > However, I think ubuntu introduced a dummy hal-cups-utils package that
> > > > depends on s-c-p-udev to ease the transition.
> > > >
> > > So I went and asked the apt people. The problem seems to be that
> > > because python-cupsutils has reverse dependencies its removal gets a bad
> > > score. Would it be possible to keep python-cupsutils as a dummy
> > > transitional package depending on python-cupshelpers?
>
> Since python-cupshelpers doesn’t provide the same APIs as
> python-cupsutils (they are not in the same namespace), it would be very
> wrong to do so.
I agree.
> The reverse dependencies need to be updated.
The problem here is that nothing else on the system uses
python-cupsutils. It's s-c-p itself that gets a bad score during
dist-upgrade because python-cupsutils needs to be replace by
python-cupshelpers. Aptitude figures this out correctly but apt doesn't
and that's what bothers the release team.
I see two solutions:
* add the empty python-cupsutils package (which is a bad thing since
other packages depending on python-cupsutils have their dependencies
fulfilled but break).
* don't bother that apt doesn't get it right - i tried several other
combinations but without a transitional package it didn't work out.
>
> > Josselin, would you agree? We had these in an early version and removed
> > them on your request.
> >
> > http://git.debian.org/?p=users/agx/system-config-printer.git;a=commit;h=c395d899b6f8ebb5e3bce298e2faa2d60f762231
> >
> > I can add them back for hal-cups-utils as well as python-cupsutils.
>
> As for hal-cups-utils, I’ve uploaded the fixed meta-gnome2, which has
> been sitting in the SVN all the while.
Great!
-- Guido
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