Hi,
Thanks for your reply. [...]
The question is simply how much fool-proofing we should put in the Wine code to work around basic stuff like that.
I spoke to the Debian package maintainer, their policy is to separate it all so users who do not need cups support do not have to install it seems.
So I think you are right it is probably not wine's responsibility if they must do this separation.
Sorry to disturb, I was unaware of this package separation in debian.
Kind regards JG