On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 03:41:56PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > after having serious problems with the current cups 1.7 version > I have decided to go back to 1.5 version. The downgrade stumbled > over samba-libs dependency, though, which in turn requires a lot of > downgrades including the whole kde stack from 4.14 to 4.8 resulting in > an unpleasant: > --- Packages being removed because they are no longer used (66) > --- Packages being automatically held in their current state (14) > --- Packages being automatically installed to satisfy dependencies (39) > --- Packages to be downgraded (90) > --- Packages being held back (12) > --- Packages to be removed (14) > > This looks like a major pain just because of a single dependency. So I > was curious whether samba-libs really needs libcups >= 1.6 or it would > work with older versions as well. > I cannot seem to find anything in the changelog that would mentioned > bump up of the dependency because of a bug or feature. The previous > libsmbclient which seems to be behind most of the dependency hell didn't > depend on samba at all > Version: 2:3.6.6-6+deb7u4 > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.10), libcap2 (>= 2.10), libcomerr2 (>= 1.01), > libgssapi-krb5-2 (>= 1.10+dfsg~), libk5crypto3 (>= 1.6.dfsg.2), libkrb5-3 (>= > 1.10+dfsg~), libldap-2.4-2 (>= 2.4.7), libtalloc2 (>= 2.0.4~git20101213), > libtdb1 (>= 1.2.7+git20101214), libwbclient0 (>= 2:3.6.0~pre3), zlib1g (>= > 1:1.1.4) > > This leaves a hope that 1.6 dependency came with the new samba-libs > which used the current up-to-date libcups version. But I might be > completely wrong here of course.
I'd be open to changing this to libcups2 >= 1.5; I'm not aware of a specific reason we need 1.6. Jelmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
