I believe the analysis in comment #3 was based on a scenario when we were switching the printing stack to snaps in mantic. This has been rolled back because GUI management of the snap stack is not possible. So hplip has been re-seeded, and needs to get re-promoted before mantic beta.
Which means we need to go through this MIR as normal. Unfortunately despite python-reportlab being used only for an uncommon feature, dropping the dependency would make for bad UX when a user does need this feature (there's no code to tell the user they need to install python-reportlab, it'll just crash/fail). Avoiding promoting this package to main would be fine, but for the moment we don't have a clear path for doing so. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to hplip in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2028054 Title: [MIR] python-rlpycairo Status in hplip package in Ubuntu: New Status in python-reportlab package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in python-rlpycairo package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: python-rlpycairo is a new dependency of python-reportlab (currently owned by Foundations). The only consumer of python-reportlab is hplip (owned by Desktop), apparently it needs it for scanning: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=651240 $ reverse-depends src:python-reportlab -c main -r mantic Reverse-Depends =============== * hplip (for python3-reportlab) Packages without architectures listed are reverse-dependencies in: amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, s390x src:hplip -> src:python-reportlab -> src:python-rlpycairo -> src:freetype-py & src:ttf-bitstream-vera So from the above, it sounds like this new dependency is actually needed (after the reportlab package dropped its renderpm extension). It should be discussed between Foundations and Desktop who's owning those dependencies and doing the MIRs for python-rlpycairo, freetype- py and ttf-bitstream-vera To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hplip/+bug/2028054/+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
