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FS#16071 - system-config-printer-common not backwards compatible

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Christoper Daley (luciferin) - Monday, 07 September 2009, 05:13 GMT
Last edited by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Monday, 07 September 2009, 07:20 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
pacman gives a dependency error when upgrading certain components due to the name change/upgrade of system-config-printer

The package could be change to provide system-config-printer until all packages which depended upon it are rebuild with the new name.

Affects system-config-printer-common version 1.1.12-5

Steps to reproduce:
run a 'pacman -Syu' or try to install kdeadmin-system-config-printer-kde package

resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "system-config-printer>=1.1.7-3", a dependency of
"kdeadmin-system-config-printer-kde"
warning: cannot resolve "system-config-printer>=1.1.7-3", a dependency of
"kdeutils-printer-applet"
:: the following package(s) cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable
dependencies:
kdeadmin-system-config-printer-kde kdeutils-printer-applet

Do you want to skip the above package(s) for this upgrade? [Y/n]
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Closed by  Andrea Scarpino (BaSh)
Monday, 07 September 2009, 07:20 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Christoper Daley (luciferin) - Monday, 07 September 2009, 05:20 GMT
I'm sorry, with further investigation this doesn't appear to be a bug... I couldn't reach SVN to check the PKGBUILD before I filed the report, but after the latest upgrade the errors seem to have resolved.

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