Bug#322018: [Pkg-cups-devel] Re: Bug#322018: libcupsys2: Dummy package still needed?

[Martin-Éric Racine]

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Kenshi Muto wrote:

> At Mon, 8 Aug 2005 21:56:21 +0300 (EEST),
> Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>> On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Javier [UTF-8] Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
>>> Package: libcupsys2
>>> Version: 1.1.23-11
>>> Priority: wishlist
>>>
>>> This dummy package is present in sarge, etch, sid and experimental.
>>> As this is a dummy transition-only package (for woody), is there
>>> a reason why this package should still exist in the distribution?
>> [...]
>>> If this package is no longer required, please ask for its removal by
>>> reassigning this bug to ftp.debian.org or remove the package from
>>> your control file in your next upload.
>>
>> 'apt-cache rdepends libcupsys2' reports libcupsimage2 and libcupsys2-gnutls10
>> Upon closer inspection, these packages conflict and replace libcupsys2 <<1.1.18
>> and <<1.1.20 respectively, while already stable offers 1.1.23.
>>
>> Therefore, I'd say we can probably remove it.
>
> Well, if we can, I prefer to back libcupsys2 as real library.

Agreed. This would require changing dependencies of other packages back to what 
they were before that gnutls10 transition, though. Do we have a strategy ready 
to implement that? Is it even worth it?

> libcupsys2-'gnutls10' was worst name, because it uses gnutls11
> currently. But such migration is always difficult...

Indeed.

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