Henrique de Moraes Holschuh schrieb:
True. OTOH, in face of the whole hoopla about "plug and play" printer setup, I don't know if it makes sense to mess with it. Since it is just a recommendation, you are already free to refuse to install either one, in fact, you can refuse to install both if you don't need PPDs at all (for some very weird reason).
I have to admit, I am not an expert on this. It's only a very minor issue anyway (please note that my initial bugreport was formulated as a question). I don't want to enforce a certain packaging practice with this bug report, I just wanted to express my surprise and make sure that both packages are recommended intentionally.
That said, I agree that technically recommending one OR the other is good enough, it satisfies what is required to run the package (and thus the reason for a recommends instead of a suggests), and I am not heavily against it.
If there's a chance to break printer detection automagic in certain installations, this bug should rather be closed without further action.
Sorry for the noise! Cheers, Fabian