Bug#381743: [Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#381743: Additional info:

[Achim Bohnet]

On Sunday 13 August 2006 12:36, Kenshi Muto wrote:
> At Sun, 13 Aug 2006 10:58:34 +0200,
> Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> > > Could you send me your /etc/cups archive? I'll try to reproduce.
> > 
> > Attached
[...]
> Reinstalling gs-esp won't help, because this file is marked as conf-file
> and it will not be installed if it is removed by hand.

FWIW: Using

	apt-get --download-only --reinstall install gs-esp
	dpkg -i --force-confmiss  /var/cache/apt/archives/gs-esp*.deb

should reinstall gs-esp including the missing conffile(s).

dpkg --force-help
...
  confmiss [!]           Always install missing config files
...
WARNING - use of options marked [!] can seriously damage your installation.
Forcing options marked [*] are enabled by default.

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