Greetings, I'm really not sure I understand what the problem is. Removing the transitional package 'cups-pdf' is entirely the job of whichever package manager you use, typically 'apt' or 'aptitude'. This is never handled by the packages themselves.
Martin-Éric 2017-06-24 19:31 GMT+03:00 Hans-J. Ullrich <[email protected]>: > Package: printer-driver-cups-pdf > Version: 3.0.1-4 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > I am running debian/testing, and so I cannot upgrade to > printer-driver-cups-pdf, which is a successor to the package cups-pdf. > > The problem is, that printer-driver-cups-pdf inhibits to upgrade, as the > installer got a dependency problem with the installed cups-pdf. > > Workaround is, just to uninstall and purge cups-pdf, then install > printer-driver-cups-pdf. > However, the debian package should know the dependencies and uninstall > cups-pdf automatically, then of course, install printer-driver-cups-pdf. > > I believe, you might want to inform the package team. > > Thank you for reading this. > > Best regards > > Hans > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 9.0 > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= > (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > Versions of packages printer-driver-cups-pdf depends on: > ii cups 2.2.3-2 > ii cups-client 2.2.3-2 > ii ghostscript 9.20~dfsg-3.2 > ii libc6 2.24-12 > ii libcups2 2.2.3-2 > ii libpaper-utils 1.1.24+nmu5 > > printer-driver-cups-pdf recommends no packages. > > Versions of packages printer-driver-cups-pdf suggests: > ii system-config-printer 1.5.7-3 > > -- no debconf information >
