Bug#768859: [printer-driver-hpcups] upgrading the packages overwrites the ppd
On Sun 09 Nov 2014 at 18:50:44 +0100, Francesco Muzio wrote:
Hello Francesco. Thank you for your report.
> I have found a temporary workaround for the bug #655106
> I use the hpijs ppd instead of hpcups and my printer works well with
> margins.
>
> Unfortunately despite my printer has been installed using hpijs
> drivers after each package upgrading who triggers the PPD updating
> the PPD associated at hpcups overwrite automatically the original
> PPD and the printer driver is automatically switch to hpcups.
>
> the following output shows an piece of "apt-get upgrade" result with
> my printer driver updated by hpcups insted of hpijs.
>
> Elaborazione dei trigger per cups (1.7.5-7)...
> Updating PPD files for hpcups ...
> PPD for printer Deskjet_F4200 updated
> Updating PPD files for hpijs ...
> Configurazione di hplip (3.14.6-1+b2)...
> Creating/updating hplip user account...
This issue looks very much like #686653:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686653
Any testing which is done to try to pin it would be appreciated.
Regards,
Brian.
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