Bug#405827: Suggestion: BSD-only version that will install with cupsys-client
* Craig Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080331 01:32]: It probably needs some more looking at. The difficulty with this sort of thing is you have to not make it more complicated than it needs to be. I'm not really in favour of the standard lprng package changing that much. Currently if you try to install it it removes cupsys-bsd which makes sense for most people. I think the question also is: Why should lp and lpr be different printing systems? I think this would be extremly confusing. Thus I think it is not lprng's problem, but the problem is that cups puts lp, lpstat and cancel in the wrong package. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#405827: Suggestion: BSD-only version that will install with cupsys-client
Couldn't it be solved by setting proper links in /etc/alternatives, like it's done for other similar packages with the same binary names (mawk, gawk etc.)? And a separate package, too. Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#405827: Suggestion: BSD-only version that will install with cupsys-client
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 01:28:16PM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Couldn't it be solved by setting proper links in /etc/alternatives, like it's done for other similar packages with the same binary names (mawk, gawk etc.)? And a separate package, too. It probably needs some more looking at. The difficulty with this sort of thing is you have to not make it more complicated than it needs to be. I'm not really in favour of the standard lprng package changing that much. Currently if you try to install it it removes cupsys-bsd which makes sense for most people. However I could duplicate some of the packages into a smaller package that only has those files. Or just have lprng depend on it. On second thoughts a package with the files duplicated probably makes more sense. I really want this new package to be something that shouts use me only for strange circumstances. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 http://www.enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au http://www.debian.org/ Debian GNU/Linux, software should be Free -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#405827: Suggestion: BSD-only version that will install with cupsys-client
Package: lprng Severity: wishlist We need to use cups together with lprng since the lpr version in the cupsys-bsd or lpr packages doesn't support -R or -Z. However, due to the sysv support in lprng (lp, lpstat, cancel), there is a conflict with cupsys-client. I have so far solved our problem like this: download the binary lprng package, unpack (dpkg -x, dpkg -e), remove clashing symlinks and manpages, edit md5sums and contol (change name), repack with dpkg-deb and add the package to a local repository. While this works, it takes som basic knowledge about the packaging system, som my suggestion would be to make a separate package called lprng-bsd without cancel, lp, lpstat, which can be installed with apt together with cupsys-client. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
