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

[Michal Hocko]

On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 04:08:37AM +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> 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.

That would be really great! I wanted to try to rebuild the package with
the changed dependency but I couldn't find it in the control file
because it seems to be auto-generated. Then I failed to understand
how to sneak the right version in.

Is there anything more I can help you with?
-- 
Michal Hocko