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system-config-printer package

avahi-utils should be downgraded to a Recommends dependency

Bug #559780 reported by Loye Young
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: system-config-printer

System-config-printer-common *depends* on avahi-utils, even though configuring printers does not require avahi. In such a case, the correct dependency level is a *recommends*.

In situations where avahi is not desired, whether because of security policy or out of performance considerations, removing avahi breaks system-config-printer-common, which breaks system-config-printer-gnome, which breaks ubuntu-desktop. In essence, the *depends* prevents removal of avahi without removing the desktop.

This is a regression from Hardy LTS and was discovered when upgrading to Lucid LTS Beta 2.

Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)
Changed in system-config-printer (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package system-config-printer - 1.2.0+20100408-0ubuntu5

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system-config-printer (1.2.0+20100408-0ubuntu5) lucid; urgency=low

  * debian/control: Moved avahi-utils from Depends to Recommends, to get it
    installed on standard installations but keep it removable for users who
    do not want to use DNS-SD/mDNS (LP: #559780).
 -- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Sat, 10 Apr 2010 19:59:50 +0200

Changed in system-config-printer (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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