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Bug#590163: marked as done (openprinting-ppds: where did HP_LaserJet_1320_Series.ppd go?)

Your message dated Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:01:29 +0200
with message-id <201008111701.48560.didier@raboud.com>
and subject line Re: Changes in foomatic-db
has caused the Debian Bug report #590163,
regarding openprinting-ppds: where did HP_LaserJet_1320_Series.ppd go?
to be marked as done.

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Package: openprinting-ppds
Version: 20100630-1
Severity: normal

Hi and thanks for maintaining this package!

I used to configure my HP LaserJet 1320 printer with the following commands:

  # aptitude install openprinting-ppds
  # zcat /usr/share/ppd/postscript/HP/HP_LaserJet_1320_Series.ppd.gz \
    > /tmp/HP_LaserJet_1320_Series.ppd
  # lpadmin -p lj -E -v parallel:/dev/lp0 \
    -P /tmp/HP_LaserJet_1320_Series.ppd -D "HP LaserJet 1320"
  # lpoptions -p lj -o media=A4 -o sides=two-sided-long-edge
  # lpadmin -d lj

Now, I've just upgraded openprinting-ppds and noticed that
/usr/share/ppd/postscript/HP/HP_LaserJet_1320_Series.ppd.gz
seems to have disappeared from the package!

I couldn't find any clearly explained reason for that in the Debian
changelog, and no README.Debian seems to be present.

Why was this PPD file dropped?

How am I supposed to configure my HP LaserJet 1320 printer, next time
I install a (print server) box?
I would rather avoid searching for random PPD files on the Internet,
like I used to do long ago...

Could you please help me?


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

openprinting-ppds depends on no packages.

Versions of packages openprinting-ppds recommends:
ii  cups                          1.4.4-1    Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  cups-client                   1.4.4-1    Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 

Versions of packages openprinting-ppds suggests:
pn  hpijs-ppds                    <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information

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Le samedi 24 juillet 2010 13:09:15, vous avez écrit :
> Hi and thanks for maintaining this package!

Hi Francesco, and thanks for your bugreport !

> I used to configure my HP LaserJet 1320 printer with the following
> commands:
> 
>   # aptitude install openprinting-ppds
>   # zcat /usr/share/ppd/postscript/HP/HP_LaserJet_1320_Series.ppd.gz \
> 
>     > /tmp/HP_LaserJet_1320_Series.ppd
> 
>   # lpadmin -p lj -E -v parallel:/dev/lp0 \
>     -P /tmp/HP_LaserJet_1320_Series.ppd -D "HP LaserJet 1320"
>   # lpoptions -p lj -o media=A4 -o sides=two-sided-long-edge
>   # lpadmin -d lj
> 
> Now, I've just upgraded openprinting-ppds and noticed that
> /usr/share/ppd/postscript/HP/HP_LaserJet_1320_Series.ppd.gz
> seems to have disappeared from the package!

That's completely true: they did disappear. They had once migrated to foomatic-
filters-ppds and this package has now vanished. So you are correct; the 
HP_LaserJet_1320_Series.ppd.gz disappeared from the Debian packages.

> I couldn't find any clearly explained reason for that in the Debian
> changelog, and no README.Debian seems to be present.
> 
> Why was this PPD file dropped?

The main reason is that that the foomatic-filters-ppds package was huge to build 
and ship across the mirrors for close to zero benefit, as the *.ppd files can be 
recreated "on-demand" with Debian tools, included in foomatic-db-engine, with 
the help of the xml source files in foomatic-db.

$ dpkg -L foomatic-db | grep HP-LaserJet_1320
(…) ./usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer/HP-LaserJet_1320.xml


> How am I supposed to configure my HP LaserJet 1320 printer, next time
> I install a (print server) box?

Here's how you can get your PPD file back, using the foomatic database (you need 
foomatic-db and foomatic-db-engine packages installed):

 Search for the printer ID :
  $ foomatic-searchprinter HP LaserJet 1320
  HP-LaserJet_1320

 Create the PPD:
  $ foomatic-ppdfile -p HP-LaserJet_1320 > /tmp/HP_LaserJet_1320_Series.ppd

And then you can do as before. Note that you can specify the driver you want to 
use with the -d switch.

> I would rather avoid searching for random PPD files on the Internet,
> like I used to do long ago...

This should really not be necessary anymore: either i) the printer is supported 
and should be in the foomatic-db database ii) it isn't yet but could be with 
FLOSS: this should be reported to the openprinting.org guys or iii) it can't be 
supported with FLOSS and we are lost anyway.

> Could you please help me?

Of course. 

Le mercredi 11 août 2010 16:43:06 Till Kamppeter, vous avez écrit :
> To save space, the PPDs in foomatic-db got compressed. They are all
> compressed in the /usr/lib/cups/driver/openprinting-ppds and
> /usr/lib/cups/driver/openprinting-ppds-extra files.

For completeness: this will be the case in the squeeze+1 Debian release and 
won't be for squeeze: the change is too invasive at that point of the freeze.

> CUPS extracts needed PPD files automatically.Nothing will change for you if
> you set up printers with the web interface (http://localhost:631/) or with
> system-config-printer.

That's completely true and will be so in Squeeze. If using CUPS, one should 
really use the web interface.

> I suggest these instructions to be added to the documentation for the
> package (README.debian etc.).

Would you have a suggested wording ?

Cheers, 

OdyX

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