[Jaunty] cups-pdf removed on upgrade

[NoOp]

Anyone else get bit by this bug? Hit me after my upgrades from
hardy-intrepid-jaunty.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/362689
[cups-pdf printing missing after Jaunty upgrade]

I found this pretty amazing:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/362689/comments/3>

<quote>
cups-pdf printing missing after Jaunty upgrade
Martin-Éric Racine wrote on 2009-04-26: (permalink)

This is probably because cups-pdf was dropped from e.g. ubuntu-desktop
dependencies, now that both GTK2 and QT (the graphic toolkits libraries
used by GNOME and KDE, respectively) offer built-in printing management
dialogs and the ability to produce PDF from there by design, so whatever
APT backend 'update-manager' uses decided to automatically remove the
package. My best guess is thus that this bug really should be assigned
to update-manager.
</quote>

I had very detailed and specific cups-pdf printers set up in hardy,
several with non-generic, customized, cups-pdf ppd's - including
ghostpdf.ppd's and now find that the ever 'Windows-like' Ubuntu
powers-to-be simply decided to wipe out all of my cups-pdf printers and
the configs. Discovered it to day on this recenty upgraded (h-i-j)
machine when I went to print to a pdf. *No* cups-pdf printers. So I take
a look:

$ apt-cache policy cups-pdf
cups-pdf:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.5.0-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
     2.5.0-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
     2.4.8-1ubuntu1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Every f&*$ing one of my cups-pdf printers is gone! I had to reinstall
cups-pdf & now look for my backup instructions on how to rebuild the old
customized cups-pdf ppd's & configs. *Then* I have to replicate that
across 6 other machines.

Un-F^&^%@# believable! I'll wait a day or two to cool jets before adding
to 362689, but *heads-up* if you are about to do a hardy-intrepid-jaunty
upgrade, be sure to backup *all* of your cups-pdf files (including
ppd's) first.