Ubuntu
cups-filters package

package foomatic-filters-beh (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/cups/backend/beh', which is also in package cups-filters 1.8.3-2ubuntu1

Bug #1563686 reported by Christopher Wayne Fisher
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Bug Description

conflicting files

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: foomatic-filters-beh (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-16.32-generic 4.4.6
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 30 01:13:43 2016
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/cups/backend/beh', which is also in package cups-filters 1.8.3-2ubuntu1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-03-29 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Beta amd64 (20160323)
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1
 apt 1.2.9
SourcePackage: foomatic-filters
Title: package foomatic-filters-beh (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/cups/backend/beh', which is also in package cups-filters 1.8.3-2ubuntu1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Christopher Wayne Fisher (chrisf826-7) wrote :
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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

The binary packages of foomatic-filters are deprecated as foomatic-filters is discontinued upstream. foomatic-filters upstream provided foomatic-rip and beh which are now both provided by cups-filters upstream and development is continued there. So please do not install foomatic-filters of foomatic-filters-beh.

Anyone can help me how to correctlky represent the discontinuation of foomatic-filters in the cups-filters package and how to get foomatic-filters out of the distro?

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

Uploaded cups-filters 1.8.3-2ubuntu2 with Conflicts:/Replaces:/Provides: foomatic-filters-beh in its debian/control file. With this package installed, explicitly installing foomatic-filters-beh will ask the user to remove cups-filters and all its dependencies. This prevents automatic bug reports as this one, but an unexperienced user could remove most of the system's printing stack.

Best would be the removal of foomatic-filters from Xenial.

Or is there a way of a versioned Provides: which makes the request for installing foomatic-filters-beh answered with "everything is up-to-date"?

Changed in foomatic-filters (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Committed
Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)
affects: foomatic-filters (Ubuntu) → cups-filters (Ubuntu)
Changed in cups-filters (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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