On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 02:56:18PM +0100, Micha Lenk wrote:
> Just for the records: Do you know *why* a backported pyppd was required
> for the backport of hplip?
it's a build dependency (no binary depends on it), and as far as i see
it's only used in the rules file as dh_pyppd in order to compress the
ppd files. from the man page:
> dh_pyppd is a debhelper program that compresses PPDs installed under
> /usr/share using pyppd, removes them from the binary package and adds
> the needed Depends to the package's ${misc:Depends}.
it's hard to say whether that's optional or not (the comment in the
rules file and the Depends of the binary package hplip-data, which
contains the ppd files (and has nothing added in misc:Depends) indicate
that it is, but i wouldn't rely on it.
best regards
chrysn
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