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["Daniel Richard G." <skunk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Marc, your changes check out fine on my end. (Good call, by the way,
moving foomatic-filters to Recommends: as well.) ubuntu-desktop no
longer has a direct nor indirect hard-dependency on cups.

Does anyone listening in on this bug have any objections to moving the
Foomatic and OpenPrinting packages? Going once... going twice...

I'll go ahead and propose the merge if no one makes angry noises.

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Downgrade "cups" to Recommends:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302272
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Bug description:
Binary package hint: ubuntu-desktop

When setting up Ubuntu desktop systems in a corporate/institutional setting that happens to have a central CUPS server and networked printing infrastructure, it is desirable not to have cupsd (and all its associated weight) installed on the desktops, and instead configure cups-client (via /etc/cups/client.conf) to talk directly to the central server.

Why? Ease of administration. The CUPS server is a fairly complex piece of software in its own right, and having one instance of it in a centrally-managed location is complicated enough without having basically the same piece of software running on every desktop. (This was made especially clear to me when I investigated how one sets the default print queue. There are potentially THREE places where this can be done: (1) on the client, in /etc/cups/lpoptions; (2) on the local CUPS server, via "lpadmin -d"; (3) on the central CUPS server. #1 and #3 are reasonable; #2 is just a headache waiting to happen.)

Please downgrade "cups" to a recommendation of the -desktop package, so that the latter can be installed (and retained) sans CUPS server.