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Re: Renaming HPLIP printer driver packages



On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 06:50:47 Till Kamppeter wrote:
> The simple approach would be to rename all these simply adding
> "printer-driver-" to the beginning of each package name. No problem with
> hpijs, hpijs-ppds, and hplip-cups. hplip I do not like to rename, as it
> contains mainly the core of the HPLIP software suite and only ais an
> additional part it contains PostScript PPD files. So I would split the
> hplip binary package into hplip and hplip-postscript and then rename the
> hplip-postscript package. The hplip-postscript will contain the
> compressed archive of the PostScript PPDs plus the
> /usr/lib/cups/filter/hpcac filter, which is used by PostScript color
> lasers to control access to color printing.

I am happy to conform to a Debian/ Ubuntu standard for printer packages.

I would even support a printer-driver-hplip, if that makes sense.

Mark

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