[Bug 1536353] Re: [regression] Printer drivers install is broken as lsb package is not available anymore
Arup
arup.chowdhury at gmail.com
Sun May 8 05:58:29 UTC 2016
I have the same issue, ESCPR doesn't support any of the CISS Epson
printers like L200 or 800. My 800 worked fine under 14.04 with
downloaded driver and utility. The later would allow check of ink status
and do nozzle cleaning. Due to missing lsb-core both are impossible to
be installed under 16.04. This fix is needed ASAP as many other Epson
and non Epson printers are affected along with Google Earth and other
programs like Maple etc.
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Title:
[regression] Printer drivers install is broken as lsb package is not
available anymore
Status in cups-filters package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in epson-inkjet-printer-escpr package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in lsb package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in system-config-printer package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
Starting with Xenial, lsb compatibility packages were dropped (besides
lsb-release and lsb-base):
lsb (9.20150826) unstable; urgency=low
* Drop all the LSB compatibility packages besides lsb-release and lsb-base
- Drop packages-availability checking in lsb-release
- Truncate README.Debian to a minimum
- Document this in lsb-base.NEWS.Debian
* Change the versioning number to avoid any ambiguity; use joeyh's
version.date, with version being Debian next stable's
-- Didier Raboud <odyx at debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:00:00 +0200
The problem is that downloadable printer drivers (like the ones from
Openprinting, but also from other available providers) that are
suggested when installing a printer on Ubuntu depends on lsb, which is
not available anymore:
epson-inkjet-printer-201106w:
Dépend: lsb (>=3.2) but it is not installable
This triggers a regression where it is not possible to setup a printer
this way (downloading a driver where no local driver is available)
anymore.
I see two possible solutions:
- Add a proper replaces field to one of the remaining lsb-* packages,
to hopefully fix missing lsb package (maybe it would be useful to also
replace other compability packages that are not built anymore).
- Re-introduce LSB compatibility packages, but that might be an
overkill.
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