On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Rustom Mody wrote: > >> In a normal upgrade aptitude removed the canon printer driver >> cndrvcups-common >> >> I find it has a dependency on gs-esp > > What printer do you use? Is it listed at [1]? > > cndrvcups-common from [2] does not seem to request gs-esp by name. > What does "apt-cache show cndrvcups-common" say for you? ---------------------------------- $ apt-cache show cndrvcups-common Package: cndrvcups-common Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: net Installed-Size: 3072 Maintainer: Canon Inc. <sup-deb...@list.canon.co.jp> Architecture: i386 Version: 2.20-1 Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.7.2), libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-21), libglade2-0 (>= 1:2.4.2-2), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.6.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.6.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.8.1), libxml2 (>= 2.6.16), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), cupsys | cups, gs-esp, libcups2 | libcupsys2 (>= 1.1.23) Description: Canon Printer Driver Common Modules Ver.2.20 Canon Printer Driver Common Modules.
-------------------------- > (I'm trying > to figure out whether we need to document how to pretend to have > gs-esp using "equivs" or whether a simple Provides would work.) What would it take to get cndrvcups-capt cndrvcups-common into the debian repos? [I would like to try my hand at some debian packaging if its not entirely outside reach of my pea-sized-brain :-) ] > > Thanks for reporting, Thanks for answering! > Jonathan > > [1] http://www.openprinting.org/printers > [2] > http://kmuto.jp/debian/mtu/pool/main/c/cndrvcups-common/cndrvcups-common_1.30-1.dsc > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org