[Bug 1536353] Re: [regression] Printer drivers install is broken as lsb package is not available anymore
Arup
arup.chowdhury at gmail.com
Fri Jun 10 15:08:43 UTC 2016
@Douglas thats a valid question but in that case, we would need to be
wary about bulletins from places like lwn or other boards. LSB in itself
is just a hierarchy and has no access to net or any critical file in the
system.
Also for those who update from 14.04 or 15.10 with lsb installed, Xenial
update doesn't remove the lsb files. Also bear in mind most
distributions are using older 4.1 version and not the latest version 5.0
which includes SUSE, Red Hat and Arch.
Hopefully Canonical will fix this issue so we don't have to indulge in
this particular hack.
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Title:
[regression] Printer drivers install is broken as lsb package is not
available anymore
Status in cups-filters package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in epson-inkjet-printer-escpr package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in lsb package in Ubuntu:
Fix Committed
Status in system-config-printer package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
Starting with Xenial, lsb compatibility packages were dropped (besides
lsb-release and lsb-base):
lsb (9.20150826) unstable; urgency=low
* Drop all the LSB compatibility packages besides lsb-release and lsb-base
- Drop packages-availability checking in lsb-release
- Truncate README.Debian to a minimum
- Document this in lsb-base.NEWS.Debian
* Change the versioning number to avoid any ambiguity; use joeyh's
version.date, with version being Debian next stable's
-- Didier Raboud <odyx at debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:00:00 +0200
The problem is that downloadable printer drivers (like the ones from
Openprinting, but also from other available providers) that are
suggested when installing a printer on Ubuntu depends on lsb, which is
not available anymore:
epson-inkjet-printer-201106w:
Dépend: lsb (>=3.2) but it is not installable
This triggers a regression where it is not possible to setup a printer
this way (downloading a driver where no local driver is available)
anymore.
I see two possible solutions:
- Add a proper replaces field to one of the remaining lsb-* packages,
to hopefully fix missing lsb package (maybe it would be useful to also
replace other compability packages that are not built anymore).
- Re-introduce LSB compatibility packages, but that might be an
overkill.
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