Bug#379863: All non-HP hpijs-PPDs are missing
retitle 379863 Please package non-HP hpijs ppds from linuxprinting.org
severity 379863 wishlist
reassign 379863 foomatic-filters-ppds
thanks
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Pascal De Vuyst wrote:
> >All the hpijs printers were removed from the package
> >foomatic-filters-ppds and moved to the new package hplip-ppds, but in
> >the hplip-ppds packages there are only HP printers and not all the
> >printers using hpijs driver.
All PPDs distributed by hpijs *upstream* are in hpijs-ppds. HPIJS upstream
however only takes care of PPDs for HP printers, for obvious reasons.
That pretty much explains the problem. I guess we need another package with
the non-HP PPDs. I was personally not aware of non-HP hpijs PPDs or I'd
have brought up the issue myself.
> I also believe that all hpijs PPDs belong in package hpijs-ppds and
> should be installed in /usr/share/ppd/hpijs.
No can do. hpijs-ppds (which CAN be renamed to something else, like
hpijs-ppds-hp) is the set of PPDs known to work well with a given version of
hpijs. This set is provided by HP upstream with every hpijs (actually,
HPLIP) release, and they do not take care of the non-HP hpijs PPDs. I don't
want to mix anything taken directly from linuxprinting.org into this
package.
Packaging the non-HP hpijs PPDs from foomatic in a hpijs-ppds-misc package
is the proper solution IMHO. I'd of course update the hpijs-* packages to
account for the new ppd package.
And IMO the best place to create such a package is in the
foomatic-filters-ppds source package, so it is a matter of what the
foomatic-filters-ppds maintainer thinks of the idea.
The package should not include the HP hpijs PPDs (just filter out all PPDs
with a Manufacturer of "HP"), or it should conflict with hpijs-ppds.
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