cups-pdf printing missing after Jaunty upgrade

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I confirm this, in the two upgrades that I tried (my desktop and my laptop) the cups-pdf package got removed after updating from Intrepid to Jaunty. I had to reinstall them after upgrading.

This is probably because cups-pdf was dropped from e.g. ubuntu-desktop dependencies, now that both GTK2 and QT (the graphic toolkits libraries used by GNOME and KDE, respectively) offer built-in printing management dialogs and the ability to produce PDF from there by design, so whatever APT backend 'update-manager' uses decided to automatically remove the package. My best guess is thus that this bug really should be assigned to update-manager.

Could you please add the log files from /var/log/dist-upgrade/* to this bug report? Thanks in advance.

I had very detailed and specific cups-pdf printers set up in hardy which carried forward to intrepid,
several with non-generic, customized, cups-pdf ppd's - including
ghostpdf.ppd's and now find that the upgrade to jaundy decided to wipe out all of my cups-pdf printers and
the configs. Discovered it to day on this recenty upgraded (h-i-j)
machine when I went to print to a pdf. *No* cups-pdf printers. So I take
a look:

$ apt-cache policy cups-pdf
cups-pdf:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.5.0-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
     2.5.0-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
     2.4.8-1ubuntu1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

This is unacceptable. I now have 6 other machines that I have to rebuild cups-pdf configs for as I also upgraded them (hardy-intrepid-jaunty). Attached are the log files from the Intrepid to Jaunty portion of the upgrade.

This happened to me again on updating from jaunty to karmic. I attach the log files of the update.

[Expired for update-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]