[Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#452408: hplip: undeclared predependency on killall (Re: E: Couldn't install system due to errors!)

[Justin Pryzby]

Package: hplip
Version: 2.7.10-2
Severity: serious
Justification: undeclared preinstallation dependency
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-live-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org

On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 05:28:15PM +0100, René Mérou wrote:
> El Wednesday 21 November 2007 21:06:34 Daniel Baumann escribió:
> > Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > > IIRC d-l silently .. fixes it for
> > > you if it's not installed.
> >
> > yes
> >
> > > I think maybe it should not.
> >
> > you're right, it's changed.

> Now i have one new : i cant create the iso
> 
> http://pastebin.com/d4dff3a10

|Unpacking hplip (from .../hplip_2.7.10-2_i386.deb) ...
|/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: line 31: killall: command not found
|dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/hplip_2.7.10-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
| subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 127

This one is a package-specific bug.  hplip should either predepend on
psmisc or (preferably) find a different way of doing that using only
essential (?) packages (for example use of start-stop-daemon perhaps).

I don't know what dependencies are causing the inclusion of hplip in
your image, but you should somehow work around that package bug.