** Changed in: lsb (Ubuntu Xenial)
Status: New => In Progress
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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:
In Progress
Status in system-config-printer package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in cups-filters source package in Xenial:
Fix Released
Status in epson-inkjet-printer-escpr source package in Xenial:
Fix Released
Status in lsb source package in Xenial:
In Progress
Status in system-config-printer source package in Xenial:
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 <o...@debian.org> 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.
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