Adding deity@ to cc... On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 19:07:08 +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> Hi Josselin, > On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 02:35:39PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le vendredi 03 septembre 2010 à 13:18 +0200, Guido Günther a écrit : > > > > > However, I think ubuntu introduced a dummy hal-cups-utils package that > > > > > depends on s-c-p-udev to ease the transition. > > > > > > > > > So I went and asked the apt people. The problem seems to be that > > > > because python-cupsutils has reverse dependencies its removal gets a bad > > > > score. Would it be possible to keep python-cupsutils as a dummy > > > > transitional package depending on python-cupshelpers? > > > > Since python-cupshelpers doesn’t provide the same APIs as > > python-cupsutils (they are not in the same namespace), it would be very > > wrong to do so. > I agree. > > > The reverse dependencies need to be updated. > The problem here is that nothing else on the system uses > python-cupsutils. It's s-c-p itself that gets a bad score during > dist-upgrade because python-cupsutils needs to be replace by > python-cupshelpers. Aptitude figures this out correctly but apt doesn't > and that's what bothers the release team. > > I see two solutions: > > * add the empty python-cupsutils package (which is a bad thing since > other packages depending on python-cupsutils have their dependencies > fulfilled but break). > * don't bother that apt doesn't get it right - i tried several other > combinations but without a transitional package it didn't work out. > The second one is not acceptable IMO. > > > > > Josselin, would you agree? We had these in an early version and removed > > > them on your request. > > > > > > http://git.debian.org/?p=users/agx/system-config-printer.git;a=commit;h=c395d899b6f8ebb5e3bce298e2faa2d60f762231 > > > > > > I can add them back for hal-cups-utils as well as python-cupsutils. > > > > As for hal-cups-utils, I’ve uploaded the fixed meta-gnome2, which has > > been sitting in the SVN all the while. > Great! Cheers, Julien
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