Bug#590163: Changes in foomatic-db

[Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>]

Note also that PPDs for most HP printers are not provided by the 
OpenPrinting database and therefore not provided by foomatic-db any more 
for longer time. This is because HP ships their PostScript PPDs with the 
HPLIP package and maintains them there (and I do not want to ship 
redundant and unmaintained PPDs in foomatic-db). So these PPDs are 
provided by our hplip package, in the binary package hplip-data.

So for your HP printer you should install hplip or at least hplip-data 
so that you get HP's most current PPD file for your printer.

Note that from the next hplip package on the PPDs will also be 
compressed. hplip-data will then provide only the 
/usr/lib/cups/driver/hplip file and not the individual PPDs any more. 
Then you have to proceed as in my first comment to set up your printer.

Savings in the next hplip-data package will be as follows:

Binary Package             *.deb file       installed system
------------------------------------------------------------
hplip-data                      ~4 MB                 ~26 MB

   Till