[Bug 1536353] Re: [regression] Printer drivers install is broken as lsb package is not available anymore
Arup
arup.chowdhury at gmail.com
Fri May 20 03:31:59 UTC 2016
For now following Richard's advice I installed lsb by adding trusty
repository. After that I removed the trusty repo. So far no issues and
printer and printer utility working fine after driver install for my
Epson L800. This seems to be the only viable working solution till
Canonical fixes this.
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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:
Fix Released
Status in epson-inkjet-printer-escpr package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in lsb package in Ubuntu:
Fix Committed
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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