[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#539156: cups-pdf: requires user interaction on installation

[Ronny Standtke]

Package: cups-pdf
Version: 2.5.0-4
Justification: Policy 3.9.1
Severity: serious

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cups-pdf requires user interaction because of calling lpadmin in the
postinst script. This violates Debian policy "3.9.1 Prompting in
maintainer scripts". Quote: "Prompting must be done by communicating
through a program, such as debconf, which conforms to the Debian
Configuration Management Specification, version 2 or higher."

This bug breaks automatic build of Debian Live images:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2009/07/msg00113.html

The same issue is also filed against the Ubuntu package:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups-pdf/+bug/241700


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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686
Locale: LANG=de_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cups-pdf depends on:
ii  cups                        1.3.11-1     Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii  cups-client                 1.3.11-1     Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii  ghostscript                 8.64~dfsg-13 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  libc6                       2.9-12       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libpaper-utils              1.1.23+nmu1  library for handling paper charact

cups-pdf recommends no packages.

Versions of packages cups-pdf suggests:
pn  system-config-printer-gnome | <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information

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