Bug#561134: hpijs: depends (via hplip) on cups, apparently to no purpose
Package: hpijs
Version: 2.8.6.b-4
Severity: normal
The author of gnuspool (John M Collins <jmc@xisl.com>) points out
that he'd like to be able to install hpijs to be able to use it with
ghostscript for his print spooler, which we're in the process of packaging.
I must say that it certainly looks odd that something that adds an output
driver to ghostscript, and so is presumably just a data filter, ends up
depending (indirectly) on things like cups and avahi.
Please arange it so that one can install the ghostscript driver section
of this package without installing the cups server.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (800, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages hpijs depends on:
ii cupsddk 1.2.3-5 CUPS Driver Development Kit
ii foomatic-filters 4.0-20090509-1 OpenPrinting printer support - fil
ii ghostscript 8.70~dfsg-2+b1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii hplip 2.8.6.b-4 HP Linux Printing and Imaging Syst
ii libc6 2.10.1-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.1-4 GCC support library
ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8k-5 SSL shared libraries
ii libstdc++6 4.4.1-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
hpijs recommends no packages.
Versions of packages hpijs suggests:
pn hpijs-ppds <none> (no description available)
pn hplip-doc <none> (no description available)
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