Bug#997795: closed by Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com> (Re: Bug#997795: hplip: Make a hplip-plugin-installer package)

[Brendon Higgins <brendon@quantumfurball.net>]

Hi Brian,

Perhaps I was unclear in my description. You responded:
> You want to replace hp-plugin

On the contrary, I would think the proposed hplip-plugin-installer package 
would pre-depend on hplip and essentially just run hp-plugin in its postinst. 
It's complementary, not a replacement.

> with something Debian-specific that Debian has to maintain for ever.

Debian-specific, perhaps, though hardly beyond ordinary packaging practices. 
Could be useful for derivatives, too. I would think maintenance for such a 
simple thing would be minimal (barring major upstream changes - which users 
would have to figure out for themselves, otherwise).

And as I mentioned, there's plenty of precedent for this approach, and the  
arguments against those are the same.

> Patches are welome

Cool! Willing to have a go. Where should I start?

Best,
Brendon