On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 04:08:37AM +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > 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.
That would be really great! I wanted to try to rebuild the package with the changed dependency but I couldn't find it in the control file because it seems to be auto-generated. Then I failed to understand how to sneak the right version in. Is there anything more I can help you with? -- Michal Hocko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
