hi I am sending this mail to many recipients since I need help
----- On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 01:42:36PM +0200, Michael Piefel wrote: > Package: lpr-ppd > Severity: grave > Justification: causes non-serious data loss > > Replacing lpr-ppd with lprng should be a breeze, I read somewhere. But > after the change, I was left with no /etc/printcap and a dead link to > that location from /etc/lprng/printcap. Clearly, there is an upgrade > path missing, even if lprng???s config format may be slightly different. /etc/printcap is a "conffile" of lpr-ppd ; if lpr-ppd is removed, /etc/printcap will still be there ; but if you purge lpr-ppd , dpkg will delete /etc/printcap , since it is not a conffile of lprng I see no easy way to solve this problem, since lpr-ppd was removed from Debian some time ago 1) one way would be to have a dummy lpr-ppd package that depends on lprng, and that does not have /etc/printcap as a conffile I dont know if the debian-release time would approve its inclusion in Debian/Sarge , though Moreover this would *force* people that are using lpr-ppd to switch to lprng, and this is not what I want: I cannot guarantee that the switch would be 100% painless and transparent 2) another solution would be to change lprng so that /etc/printcap is a conffile ( I am not sure if this would work, though) any suggestions? a. -- Andrea Mennucc "Ukn ow,Ifina llyfixe dmysp acebar.ohwh atthef" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
