Richard, I cannot directly upload the lsb source package, this has to be done by an appropriate maintainer or a Ubuntu core developer. In addition, the package would go into the development branch of the next Ubuntu release, 16.10 or Yakkety Yak. To get it installable into Xenial via apt, an SRU (Stable Release Update) is needed.
I have attached the patch to this bug report so that Adam Conrad and/or Steve Langasek can upload the package to Yakkety and after that do the SRU. During the SRU process you will get asked for testing the fixed package, here in this bug report. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to system-config-printer in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1536353 Title: [regression] Printer drivers install is broken as lsb package is not available anymore Status in cups-filters package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in epson-inkjet-printer-escpr package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in lsb package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Status in system-config-printer package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Starting with Xenial, lsb compatibility packages were dropped (besides lsb-release and lsb-base): lsb (9.20150826) unstable; urgency=low * Drop all the LSB compatibility packages besides lsb-release and lsb-base - Drop packages-availability checking in lsb-release - Truncate README.Debian to a minimum - Document this in lsb-base.NEWS.Debian * Change the versioning number to avoid any ambiguity; use joeyh's version.date, with version being Debian next stable's -- Didier Raboud <[email protected]> Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:00:00 +0200 The problem is that downloadable printer drivers (like the ones from Openprinting, but also from other available providers) that are suggested when installing a printer on Ubuntu depends on lsb, which is not available anymore: epson-inkjet-printer-201106w: Dépend: lsb (>=3.2) but it is not installable This triggers a regression where it is not possible to setup a printer this way (downloading a driver where no local driver is available) anymore. I see two possible solutions: - Add a proper replaces field to one of the remaining lsb-* packages, to hopefully fix missing lsb package (maybe it would be useful to also replace other compability packages that are not built anymore). - Re-introduce LSB compatibility packages, but that might be an overkill. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups-filters/+bug/1536353/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
