Re: A Humble Request
Quoting Torsten Landschoff (torsten@debian.org):
> Hi Dan,
>
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 11:34:08PM -0500, DanSV@aol.com wrote:
> > I wish to make a humble request.
>
> Please do that in the right forum. debian-devel-announce is not intended
> for user requests. In this case the right way is to file a bug report
> on the gs package with severity wishlist. You can find the information on
> how to do that on
>
> http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
>
> > I use an hp 932c printer.
>
> The problem is that I don't own such a printer. So I can only go and
> search what driver is eventually available for that printer, get it
> and patch our package to support it. If I did that for every printer
> around I won't have time to do anything else.
>
> So if you need a better driver please dig it up yourself on the web
> and tell me where to find it. The gs package comes with the cdj850 and
> cdj890 drivers. They would be my best guess for your printer - please
> try if gs -sDEVICE=cdj890 does produce acceptable results for you.
>
> Another idea would be to ask on the debian user mailing list if somebody
> is using the same printer - mail to debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> > Therefore I ask that some non-standard drivers be included with your
> > ghost-script package.
>
> As long as you don't tell me which drivers that would be there is not
> much I can do to fix that.
>
> > In other words, perhaps an additional package with a whole lot of extra
> > printer drivers added in.
>
> There is no need for another package. If we get the drivers we can
> extend the normal gs package as well.
I have the HP930C and we communicated not very long ago.
You told me that you had just dropped the the 850 driver mentioned
above. So which way is it now ?
In or out ?
Mike
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