Bug#311344: Replacing lpr-ppd with lprng removes printer database

2005-06-02 Thread Michael Piefel
Am Mittwoch, den 01.06.2005, 07:48 -0700 schrieb Steve Langasek: > As I said, this is a bug in a historical package, not a current one. It _is_ current for the poor sods that use stable. -- |=| Michael Piefel |=| Member of the Debian project -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Bug#311344: Replacing lpr-ppd with lprng removes printer database

2005-06-01 Thread Craig Small
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 01:15:37PM +0200, A Mennucc wrote: > /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 lprng used to have /etc/printca

Bug#311344: Replacing lpr-ppd with lprng removes printer database

2005-06-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 04:19:33PM +0200, Michael Piefel wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 01.06.2005, 04:46 -0700 schrieb Steve Langasek: > > The simple answer is "well, don't > > purge packages without looking at the conffile list!". > Are you serious? You want the users to always look at the conffile l

Bug#311344: Replacing lpr-ppd with lprng removes printer database

2005-06-01 Thread Michael Piefel
Am Mittwoch, den 01.06.2005, 04:46 -0700 schrieb Steve Langasek: > The simple answer is "well, don't > purge packages without looking at the conffile list!". Are you serious? You want the users to always look at the conffile list, just in case the package has declared the wrong file at its conffil

Bug#311344: Replacing lpr-ppd with lprng removes printer database

2005-06-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* A Mennucc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050601 13:38]: > 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 ch

Bug#311344: Replacing lpr-ppd with lprng removes printer database

2005-06-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 02:20:09PM +0200, A Mennucc wrote: > maybe this problem may be mentioned in the Sarge release notes ? Please contact debian-doc@lists.debian.org about adding it to the release notes if you think it should be mentioned. IMHO, it seems like a minor issue; I don't think the r

Bug#311344: Replacing lpr-ppd with lprng removes printer database

2005-06-01 Thread A Mennucc
maybe this problem may be mentioned in the Sarge release notes ? On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 04:46:14AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 01:15:37PM +0200, A Mennucc wrote: > > any suggestions? > > I don't see any reason to worry about it; I think it was a bug for lpr-ppd >

Bug#311344: Replacing lpr-ppd with lprng removes printer database

2005-06-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 01:15:37PM +0200, A Mennucc wrote: > 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 > > a

Bug#311344: Replacing lpr-ppd with lprng removes printer database

2005-06-01 Thread A Mennucc
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 > a

Bug#311344: Replacing lpr-ppd with lprng removes printer database

2005-05-31 Thread Michael Piefel
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 missin