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update-manager package

  1. Bug #647460
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 647460

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote : Re: 10.04 -> 10.10: printconf is blocking the upgrade

I tried also running

sudo foomatic-gui &

(requires foomatic-db to be installed). Here ate least I got a list of the printers detected by CUPS and it seems that the correct USB URIs are used. Network printers I could not test, as the network printer detection falls into an infinite loop due to an upstream bug. Problem is that again the available PPDs/driversare not polled from CUPS, so there are no PostScript printer PPDs from manufacturers (ready-made PPDs) nor any PPDs provided by PPD generators (HPLIP, Gutenprint). This renders also this tool unusable for Ubuntu.

My suggestion:

Remove foomatic-gui sourcepackage altogether.

Add transitional packages to other packages (like system-config-printer) to migrate users of foomatic-gui and printconf.