[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#487606: cups.prerm deletes /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb which belongs to smbclient

[Mike Bird]

Package: cups
Version: 1.3.7-7
Severity: serious
Justification: see debian-devel thread


cups.prerm deletes the /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb symlink which
belongs to smbclient package.  Several systems here were bitten
by this during the cupsys->cups transition, as cupsys.prerm
had the same problem.

I couldn't find a specific policy section which prohibited this
so I asked on debian-devel where DD's said it was so obviously
wring that it didn't need a policy section:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/06/msg00613.html

Workaround is to reinstall smbclient on top of itself in order
for SMB printers to work.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.108           add and remove users and groups
ii  cups-common              1.3.7-7         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.22          Debian configuration management sy
ii  ghostscript              8.62.dfsg.1-2.1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  libavahi-compat-libdnssd 0.6.22-3        Avahi Apple Bonjour compatibility 
ii  libc6                    2.7-10          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcups2                 1.3.7-7         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsimage2            1.3.7-7         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3              1.2.1-2         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgnutls26              2.2.5-1         the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libkrb53                 1.6.dfsg.3-2    MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2            2.4.9-1         OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g                 0.99.7.1-6      Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1                1.1.23          library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1                  1.2.1-7.3       OpenSLP libraries
ii  lsb-base                 3.2-12          Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  perl-modules             5.10.0-10       Core Perl modules
ii  procps                   1:3.2.7-8       /proc file system utilities
ii  ssl-cert                 1.0.20          simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL
ii  xpdf-utils [poppler-util 3.02-1.3        Portable Document Format (PDF) sui

Versions of packages cups recommends:
pn  avahi-utils           <none>             (no description available)
ii  cups-client           1.3.7-7            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  foomatic-filters      3.0.2-20080211-3.1 OpenPrinting printer support - fil
ii  smbclient             2:3.0.30-2         a LanManager-like simple client fo

-- debconf information:
  cupsys/raw-print: true
  cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, scsi, serial, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd