Patrice, thank you very much for your test results. Now I understand
this bug:
On a new installation it easily happens that CUPS is not yet installed
and started when the post-install script of cups-bsd is executed. The
script only works on creating the /etc/printcap link if
/etc/cups/cupsd.conf exists, which requires CUPS to be installed. In
addition it links to /var/run/cups/printcap only if the file exists,
which requires the CUPS daemon already to be running, To assure that
CUPS is already running before the script gets started, we would need to
make cups-bsd depend on CUPS, but this is not required for any other
functionality of cups-bsd. The main functionality is to provide command
line printing utilities which are compatible to the ones of BSD's LPD.
These can be used without the cups package to be installed on the local
machine, by specifying a remote CUPS server in /etc/cups/client.conf.
Therefore I will move the /etc/printcap functionality to the cups
package, to avoid introducing a new dependency. The impact to the system
is small, only some bytes for a symlink.
** Changed in: cups (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => In Progress
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No /etc/printcap file in Karmic
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/415825
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