Bug#402909: Additional information to hplip

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Wed, 03 Jan 2007, Wolfgang Schnitker wrote:
> > On Tue, 02 Jan 2007, Wolfgang Schnitker wrote:
> > > 1.) it is necessary to add a dep to foomatic-db-hpijs in the hpijs
> > > package too. foomatic won't work in my case.
> >
> > NAK.  hpijs does not need, or care about foomatic-db-* or foomatic.  Or
> > even foomatic-filters, for that matter.
> >
> > The hpijs PPDs need foomatic-filters to work, and that's it.
> 
> I do not agree completely, I just took a look at the deps of these packages. 

Remember that hplip *does not need hpijs* to work, *some* of the printers
supported by hplip do.  Pure postscript printers are supported by HPLIP and
do not need HPIJS, and therefore do not need hpijs PPDs, and thus they don't
need foomatic-rip either.

> Web-Frontend to cups. An unexperienced user will not find the solution by 
> himself. 

An unexperienced user that skips recommended packages is on his own.

> > What is the bug you want to report regarding issue (3)?
> >
> Do you see a possibility to do this within a script or to tell the owner of 
> the PC that he has to do launch hp-setup by hand? Keep a Newbie in mind.

If HP upstream decides to enhance hp-toolbox to hint that hp-setup needs to
be run as root, that might help and should be enough.  Do you agree?

> > Something is hideously broken with the PyQT in Debian, which hoses hplip
> > fax support.  Nobody so far has any clue on how to fix it.  Until that's
> > fixed, your faxing experiences with hplip will vary from "can't do it" to
> > "sometimes it works".  FYI, I am in the "can't do it" camp.
> 
> My experience (I am on the can't do it camp too) to get this things work is:
> 
> Do not use the GUI, it works if you do it from the commandline, as I told in 
> the first bugreport. Use of kprintfax with commandline to hp-sendfax. 

I will try that.

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  Henrique Holschuh