Package: cupsys-client
Version: 1.1.23-4
Severity: normal
A user with limited or none experience of cups, the weak dependency on
cupsys is confusing. If I have understood cups correctly,
cupsys-client needs a server installed locally, either cupsys or
lpr(ng), but the neither the package description nor the formal
dependecies of cupsys-client reflect this. Cupsys-client has a stronger
dependency on cupsys-bsd (recommends) than on cupsys (suggests), I
think this is wrong. Citing the "Debian policy manual":
"Recommends
This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency.
The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together with
this one in all but unusual installations."
cupsys-client thus should recommend cupsys.
Another approach that I personally would find even better would be to
merge the packages cupsys & cupsys-client into one, since the
potential advantage of combining cupsys-client with lpr seems very
small.
Kind regards, Hans Ekbrand
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (300, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-386
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages cupsys-client depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcupsys2-gnutls10 1.1.23-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime
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