foomatic-filters-ppds wants to remove printconf

["H. S." <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com>]

I have this package in held state since I am not sure how important 
printconf is. apt-cache says printconf is used to auto-detect printers. 
If I go ahead and upgrade foomatic-filters-ppds (see below) and 
printconf is removed, will my Debian Sarge system loose the ability of 
auto-detect a printer? If not, any other effect of removing printconf?

Also, is this situation only temporary (has been like this for 3 or so 
days now)? If so, I will wait patiently.

#---------------------------------------------
:~# apt-get -s install foomatic-filters-ppds
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  foomatic-db-hpijs hpijs printconf
The following held packages will be changed:
  foomatic-filters-ppds
The following packages will be upgraded:
  foomatic-filters-ppds
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Remv printconf (0.7.4.3 Debian:testing)
Remv foomatic-db-hpijs (1.5-20041013-1 Debian:testing)
Remv hpijs (1.7.1-2 Debian:testing)
Inst foomatic-filters-ppds [20041013-1] (20050121-1 Debian:testing)
Conf foomatic-filters-ppds (20050121-1 Debian:testing)
#---------------------------------------------


Thanks
->HS

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