foomatic-db-hpijs miss a hpijs-ppds deps
Bug #106584 reported by
Matteo Bertini
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| foomatic-db-hpijs (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Pascal De Vuyst | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: foomatic-db-hpijs
If I understand correctly foomatic-db-hpijs is a list of ppds that are provided by hpijs-ppds
Without a direct dependency it leads to weird failures installing HP printers.
Perhaps this is an affect of the hpijs-ppds split in hpijs-ppds + hpijs (correct? I've seen a "replaces"...)
Revision history for this message
| Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in foomatic-db-hpijs: | |
| assignee: | nobody → pascal-devuyst |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Rejected |
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Thanks for your bug report.
foomatic-db-hpijs contains the foomatic xml files for printers that use the hpijs driver (HP and other makes), it is not a list of ppds.
In Edgy and Feisty PPDs are autogenerated by cups from these xml files.
hpijs-ppds contains the static PPDs for printers that use the hpijs driver (only HP).
Static PPD files can be generated from foomatic-db-hpijs with foomatic-ppdfile.
So this means you should either have foomatic-db-hpijs or hpijs-ppds installed since both provide the same information.
In Edgy and Feisty foomatic-db-hpijs is installed by default, so there is no need to install hpijs-ppds.
> Without a direct dependency it leads to weird failures installing HP printers.
If you used HPLIP Toolbox to add your printer you are probably suffering from bug #95489, which was fixed in feisty.
As explained above a dependency doesn't make sense, therefore rejecting this bug.