The intention is reall to replace foomatic-db by foomatic-db-compressed-
ppds in a standard desktop installation. This saves 18 MB in the
installed system and makes listing all PPDs/drivers ("lpinfo -m" or add-
printer wizard in system-config-printer) sigificantly faster.To trigger this transition when updating I did the following steps: 1. In the Ubuntu seeds I removed foomatic-db and foomatic-db-engine and added foomatic-db-compressed-ppds. 2. In foomatic-db I added Conflicts: foomatic-db and Replaces: foomatic-db to foomatic-db-compressed-ppds 3. In foomatic-db-engine I demoted the Depends: foomatic-db to Suggests: foomatic-db 4. In the printing-related packages cups, ghostscript, gutenprint, hplip, min12xxw, ptouch-driver, c2050 I removed all dependencies on foomatic-db. Where necessary I replaced Foomatic XML data by compressed PPD archives. I did not provide a transitional package named foomatic-db, as the original foomatic-db package (which contains the Foomatic XML data) and also foomatic-db-engine are still needed as build dependency for gutenprint and ptouch-driver so that they can pre-build their PPD files. If these measures do not lead to a smooth transition in all cases, I need help of an expert in Debian package dependencies. Any kind of help is welcome. -- foomatic-db-compressed-ppds holds back ubuntu-desktop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/633987 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
