Dear Till and Brian,
(I'm currently at pre-FOSDEM miniDebConf in Brussels, if any of you is around,
let's chat!)
With the blessing of driverless printing, it seems we're now in a world where
most (%-age ?) printers sold in the last (how many?) years support driverless
printing. Support is not perfect everywhere, but we've come such a long way
that, with a recent printer, on a normal network, it just "pops" in CUPS and
its interfaces, and printing "works", in mere seconds.
But the Debian packaging (task-print-server, cups, …) still installs _a lot_
of printer drivers and other related packages. Although in the past I was
convinced we needed to make sure that _all_ printer drivers should be
installed everywhere (hence the creation and usage of the printer-driver-all
meta-package), I'm getting more and more convinced that we should reverse this
course and install "just" what's needed to print driverless to a network
printer in "most" cases.
I have started laying down my plan on the Debian Wiki:
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Printing/2020DriverlessByDefault
I'd love to get input from you to know if:
a) that's something desireable;
b) the way I thought of it makes sense;
What are your thoughts there? Do the work directly in experimental, and
iterate until it's satisfactory?
Best regards, and thanks for your inputs!
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