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Gyscos

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Registered: 2009-09-19

Posts: 33

python2-pycups stops providing pycups

Hello there,

I currently have installed cloudprint-daemon-git from the aur, and it depends on pycups. This used to be provided by python2-pycups, at least until version 1.9.66-2.
Now, updating my systems brings python2-pycups 1.9.68-1, which doesn't provide pycups anymore.

Another package depending on pycups was system-config-printer, but apparently its newer version dropped this dependency, and instead only relied on python-pycups directly.

Is there a reason why pycups was introduced ? What is the best move for cloudprint-daemon now ? To depend on python2-pycups directly ?
Thanks !

Scimmia

Fellow

Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,541

Re: python2-pycups stops providing pycups

It provided "pycups" for backward compatibility until packages updated their dependencies to the new name. You're just way behind.

wasutton3

Member

Registered: 2011-03-19

Posts: 27

Re: python2-pycups stops providing pycups

But that doesn't solve the problem with cloudprint-daemon.

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,911

Re: python2-pycups stops providing pycups

Looks like that package needs updating, if current maintainer doesn't respond to the out-of-date flag for a while (say 2 weeks), you can request it to be orphaned so you (or someone else) can take over.

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