The root cause of this problem is probably that the "invoke-rc.d cups stop" command fails on Xenial if there are jobs in queue. The dpkg preremoval script runs that command and thus the upgrade procedure fails. In the newer Ubuntu versions the command executes flawlessly.
Until that problem is fixed in some way or another in Xenial, it isn't probably possible at all to safely publish any updates to cups-daemon, not even critical zero-day security patches. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1642966 Title: package cups-daemon 2.1.3-4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/1642966/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
