2016-06-08 19:31 GMT+03:00 Brian Potkin <[email protected]>: > On Wed 08 Jun 2016 at 12:25:40 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > >> tags 826648 + moreinfo >> reopen 826648 >> thanks > > The 'unreproducible' tag lead to me re-test by installing from the alpha6 > d-i (with no tasks) and installing printer-driver-cups-pdf. On purging > the package the ppd was removed. In the light of the tag I thought it > was just possible I had misobserved the behaviour on the other testing > installation I was using (in spite of repeated testing) or it was caused > by some other package. > > However, I thought I had deleted the partition holding the testing > installation so decided I had nothing further to contribute and closed > the bug. On reflection this action might be viewed as unhelpful and > unmannerly. Apologies. > > It transpires I was mistaken and the partition was not touched. So > trying 'lpstat -h localhost -v' gets zero output, which explains why > the PDF queue was not deleted. On the other hand 'lpadmin -h localhost' > does work. > > At first sight this looks like a bug in cups, but none of my other > unstable installs behave like that. Time to look at how I might have > fouled up that system.
Now, I'm really curious as to how to ended up with the PPD not removed, since the postrm script looks for any occurence of a cups-pdf:// type of queue and purges them all one by one, along with their PPD. Martin-Éric
