Missing dependency in lubuntu-desktop to foo2zjs (Printer drivers)

i tried to create a patch, but i dont unterstand the handling in debian/controls with

Depends: ${germinate:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}

so if someone can give me a hint about that, i will create a patch (or debdiff if needed)

Lubuntu doesn't seem to have a seed dependency on desktop-common which is where Ubuntu and the other derivatives get this as a Recomends from.

is there a special reason for that? e.g. to keep lubuntu small? or was it missed to add?

Probably desktop-commmon was accidentally omitted; Lubuntu is a very new official flavour of Ubuntu. Lubuntu 11.10 is the first release of Lubuntu using seeds to generate the ISO images. Julien would know for sure, but is currently at (or returning from) UDS, I think. We'll have to look at what else that seed file would bring in with it that is not currently included in Lubuntu. Hopefully not much :)

foo2zjs appears to require dc and mscompress, so a total of about 1.5MB of archives, 4.5MB installed disk space. If that's all it takes, then it looks to me like we should probably add desktop-common to the seed file for Lubuntu 12.04.

Sorry for the delay.

Yes, desktop-common was explicitly not used in the past, but the current content seems to be OK for Precise, and maybe for Oneiric. I'll do some testing to make sure there is no unwanted depends.

Just as an additional Info. Natty is also affected by this.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

This bug was fixed in the package lubuntu-meta - 0.29

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lubuntu-meta (0.29) precise; urgency=low

  * Update to precise.
  * Make core seed depends on desktop-common seed (LP: #884911).
  * Refreshed dependencies
  * Added lightdm to desktop
  * Added lightdm-gtk-greeter to desktop
  * Added acpi-support to core-recommends [amd64 i386]
  * Added anacron to core
  * Added apmd to core [armel]
  * Added avahi-daemon to core-recommends
  * Added bc to core
  * Added bluez to core-recommends
  * Added bluez-alsa to core-recommends
  * Added bluez-cups to core-recommends
  * Added c2esp to core-recommends
  * Added ca-certificates to core
  * Added cups to core-recommends
  * Added cups-bsd to core-recommends
  * Added cups-client to core-recommends
  * Added dc to core
  * Added foo2zjs to core-recommends
  * Added foomatic-db-compressed-ppds to core
  * Added foomatic-filters to core
  * Added genisoimage to core
  * Added ghostscript-x to core
  * Added hplip to core-recommends
  * Added inputattach to core
  * Added kerneloops-daemon to core-recommends
  * Added laptop-detect to core-recommends
  * Added lftp to core
  * Added libnss-mdns to core-recommends
  * Added libpam-ck-connector to core
  * Added libsasl2-modules to core
  * Added libxp6 to core
  * Added min12xxw to core-recommends
  * Added openprinting-ppds to core
  * Added pbbuttonsd to core [powerpc]
  * Added pnm2ppa to core
  * Added ptouch-driver to core-recommends
  * Added pxljr to core-recommends
  * Added rastertosag-gdi to core-recommends
  * Added rfkill to core
  * Added splix to core-recommends
  * Added ttf-dejavu-core to core
  * Added ttf-freefont to core
  * Added x-ttcidfont-conf to core
  * Added xkb-data to core
  * Moved alsa-base to core
  * Moved alsa-utils to core
  * Moved nvidia-common to core [amd64 i386]
  * Moved pcmciautils to core-recommends
  * Moved policykit-desktop-privileges to core-recommends
  * Moved ttf-indic-fonts-core to core-recommends
  * Moved ttf-kacst-one to core-recommends
  * Moved ttf-khmeros-core to core-recommends
  * Moved ttf-lao to core-recommends
  * Moved ttf-punjabi-fonts to core-recommends
  * Moved ttf-takao-pgothic to core-recommends
  * Moved ttf-thai-tlwg to core-recommends
  * Moved ttf-ubuntu-font-family to core-recommends
  * Moved ubuntu-extras-keyring to core
  * Moved unzip to core
  * Moved wireless-tools to core
  * Moved wpasupplicant to core
  * Moved zip to core
 -- Julien Lavergne <email address hidden> Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:46:59 +0100

Julien,
first of all thank you for the upload on 12.04. Do you plan to fix this also on all other lubuntu-releases? because all are affected by this.

Michael,
I don't plan to fix it for the previous version in the short-term.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases