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gutenprint package

[Gutsy] dpkg thinks /usr/share/cups/model/gutenprint should exist

Bug #149729 reported by Joseph Fannin
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gutenprint (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: cupsys-driver-gutenprint

The output of `dpkg -L cupsys-driver-gutenprint` indicated that dpkg thinks /usr/share/cups/model/gutenprint should exist, but it is not present even after purging the package (needed --force-depends) and reinstalling it.

The symlink is present in the package - it's there when the deb is extracted with `dpkg-deb -x`.

Maybe the symlink is not being created because its target (/usr/share/ppds/gutenprint) does not exist?

I don't know if this will cause an actual problem, but it doesn't seem right that dpkg thinks it's installed a file, but hasn't.

Revision history for this message
Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

I have checked this now. The link /usr/share/cups/model/gutenprint is obsolete and therefore deleted in the post-install script. It was only forgotten to remove the link from the package ('dh_link -pcupsys-driver-gutenprint /usr/share/ppd/gutenprint /usr/share/ cups/model/gutenprint' line in debian/rules). The problem does not break anything and so it is not urgent to fix this for Gutsy, but it should be fixed the next time when Gutenprint will be packaged again.

Changed in gutenprint:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)
Changed in gutenprint:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

gutenprint (5.0.1-0ubuntu8) gutsy; urgency=low

  * debian/control, debian/control.in: Re-introduced foomatic-db-gutenprint's
    dependency on ijsgutenprint, foomatic-db-gutenprint NEEDs ijsgutenprint
    (LP: #149899).
    Added also dependencies on foomatic-db-engine (needed to generate the PPDs)
    and foomatic-filter (needed to print with the PPDs).
    Also updated Ghostscript dependency in ijsgutenprint to the current
    situation.
  * debian/rules: Do not include obsolete link /usr/share/cups/model/gutenprint
    which is deleted by the post-install script anyway (LP: #149729).

 -- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Sat, 6 Oct 2007 17:47:33 +0100

Changed in gutenprint:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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