Comment 58 for bug 1642966

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Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote : Re: [Bug 1642966] Re: package cups-daemon 2.1.3-4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1

On 20 December 2016 at 21:39, Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> wrote:
> xnox, it seems that the suggested fix of comment #52 is the solution for
> this bug, and I could at any time add a patch to the CUPS package and
> issue it as an SRU. Only problem is, if I do only this, will the SRU
> smoothly install? Or are additional measures required?
>

Looking at:
https://wiki.debian.org/MaintainerScripts

The new package, may need to have a preinst stanza which version
checks which package version upgrade is happening from and still
execute systemctl stop cups.path unit.
Upgrades after that one should be fine without a preinst.
And preinst should then be dropped after next LTS.

Obviously a new package needs to be prepared and we should test it a bit.

Shall we start a https://bileto.ubuntu.com/ devirt PPA for this update
into zesty and eventual SRUs?

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Regards,

Dimitri.