Package: education-common Version: 1.714 Severity: critical Tags: patch When trying to install Debian Edu in Jessie, the installation fail because cups and hplip are "uninstallable". I tested a minial profile installation. I tracked the cause down to be that cups-filters and foomatic-filters conflict with each other and can't be installed together, while the education-common task want to install both.
I asked the printing team, and Didier 'OdyX' Raboud replied that cups-filters have replaced foomatic-filters and the latter should be removed from any task that want to install CUPS as a printer system. See <URL:https://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > and <URL:https://lists.debian.org/2402909.EEP9z5BeC1@gyllingar > for the details. I believe this patch will solve the problem, but is a bit unsure about the version number to use for foomatic-filters to ensure that the package keep working in Wheezy also if there is a security patch for the package. * tasks/common: List cups-filters (>= 1.0.42-1) as an alternative for the foomatic-filters package, to install the former in jessie as the latter is obsolete there. Index: tasks/common =================================================================== --- tasks/common (revision 83045) +++ tasks/common (working copy) @@ -290,7 +290,8 @@ NeedConfig: Yes Depends: cups, foomatic-db, foomatic-db-engine, foomatic-db-gutenprint, \ - foomatic-filters | cupsomatic-ppd, printer-driver-pnm2ppa, \ + cups-filters (>= 1.0.42-1) | foomatic-filters (<= 4.0.17-1) | cupsomatic-ppd, \ + printer-driver-pnm2ppa, \ printer-driver-hpijs, hpijs-ppds, hplip, ijsgutenprint Suggests: foo2zjs Ignore: escputil Perhaps better to drop the versioned depend for foomatic-filters? -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
