[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#763762: Bug#763762: samba-libs depends on libcups2 (>= 1.6.0) which makes it hard to install cups 1.5

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 03:41:56PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> after having serious problems with the current cups 1.7 version
> I have decided to go back to 1.5 version. The downgrade stumbled
> over samba-libs dependency, though, which in turn requires a lot of
> downgrades including the whole kde stack from 4.14 to 4.8 resulting in
> an unpleasant:
> --- Packages being removed because they are no longer used (66)
> --- Packages being automatically held in their current state (14)
> --- Packages being automatically installed to satisfy dependencies (39)
> --- Packages to be downgraded (90)
> --- Packages being held back (12)
> --- Packages to be removed (14)
> 
> This looks like a major pain just because of a single dependency. So I
> was curious whether samba-libs really needs libcups >= 1.6 or it would
> work with older versions as well.
> I cannot seem to find anything in the changelog that would mentioned
> bump up of the dependency because of a bug or feature. The previous
> libsmbclient which seems to be behind most of the dependency hell didn't
> depend on samba at all
> Version: 2:3.6.6-6+deb7u4
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.10), libcap2 (>= 2.10), libcomerr2 (>= 1.01), libgssapi-krb5-2 (>= 1.10+dfsg~), libk5crypto3 (>= 1.6.dfsg.2), libkrb5-3 (>= 1.10+dfsg~), libldap-2.4-2 (>= 2.4.7), libtalloc2 (>= 2.0.4~git20101213), libtdb1 (>= 1.2.7+git20101214), libwbclient0 (>= 2:3.6.0~pre3), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
> 
> This leaves a hope that 1.6 dependency came with the new samba-libs
> which used the current up-to-date libcups version. But I might be
> completely wrong here of course.

I'd be open to changing this to libcups2 >= 1.5; I'm not aware of a specific reason we need 1.6.

Jelmer