Control: severity -1 grave
Control: affects -1 libpaper-utils
On Wed, 28 Oct 2026 at 00:42:32 -0400, Chris Lawrence wrote:
The paperconf binary has been removed from libpaper-utils as of
version 2.3.0, which recently migrated to unstable. This causes the
postinst for r-base-core to fail now.
I believe the output of paperconfig (which is still available in
libpaper-utils 2.3.0) will work fine instead, but I have not
extensively tested this. On my system, I get "Letter" as the output; I
don't know if R cares about the capitalization or not.
Raising severity to RC since r-base-core now fails to install.
It might be better to reassign this to libpaper-utils and reinstate
paperconf there (as a wrapper or compatibility shim, or perhaps even a
symlink if it's command-line compatible) because r-base-core is far from
the only package that invokes paperconf:
https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=paperconf%5Cb&literal=0
suggests that libreoffice, texlive-bin, texlive-extra, python-docutils,
html2ps, hylafax, xmlto, magicfilter, apsfilter, debiandoc-sgml, fitsh,
cups-pdf, signing-party, efax, pexec all want to use paperconf as well.
smcv
