Control: -1 +wontfix # No change is going to happen in CUPS Le lundi, 20 janvier 2020, 09.25:11 h CET Gianfranco Costamagna a écrit : > On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 23:29:14 +0100 Marc Lehmann wrote: > > Package: roger-router-cli > > Version: 1.8.14-2+b3 > > Severity: serious > > Justification: Policy 3.5 > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > roger-router-cli apparently depends on cups-daemon, but has no required > > dependency on it. if only cups-client is installed, installation fails > > because the daemon is not running: > > > > Setting up roger-router-cli (1.8.14-2+b3) ... > > lpadmin: Unable to connect to server: Bad file descriptor > > > > dpkg: error processing package roger-router-cli (--configure): > > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status > > 1 > > > > I *guess* the fix would be to make the dependency on cups optional in the > > post-install script somehow. > > I think, that if cups provides a client that doesn't work without the > corresponding daemon, its a cups bug. > > If they provide a cups-client containing binaries (e.g. lpadmin) that works > only with cups-daemon installed, maybe they can think about adding that > dependency, or split them into a new subpackage, or something else (like > fail less badly).
Absolutely not, no, sorry.
cups-client software works fine against non-local CUPS servers (see lpadmin's
-h option), so adding a cups-client dependency against cups-daemon would
impose a server on client-only setup. Quite like if firefox would grow a
dependency on Apache2.
> Not sure, but I have the feeling that reassigning to cups team is the right
> choice to do.
I'm not going to engage in reassign combat, but my understanding is that the
following code from roger-router-cli.postinst _assumes_ that a local CUPS
daemon is available (as no -h is specified):
if which lpadmin >/dev/null
then
lpadmin -p "Roger-Router-Fax" -E -v roger-cups:/ -P
/usr/share/roger/roger-fax.ppd
fi
(from
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/roger-router/blob/master/debian/roger-router-cli.postinst#L17
)
If the postinst of roger-router-cli depends on a running, local, cups-daemon,
it has to grow a dependency on the daemon itself, and cups-client will not
grow that dependency.
I'm tagging this bug as wontfix in CUPS, feel free to remove that tag when
reassigning back to roger-router-cli.
Cheers,
OdyX
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