roepen 353348
severity 353348 important
merge 353348 339584
thanks

On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 11:54:06AM +0000, Mark Purcell wrote:
> On Friday 17 February 2006 21:48, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > Um, that looks like a permissions problem on the device for your parallel
> > port, and not a bug in hpoj at all.  You will need to configure your system
> > (presumably using udev and/or /etc/group) to grant the hpojlp user access
> > to /dev/lp0.

> > For the record, I'm using hpoj 0.91-9 here and it works fine.

> Can you confirm you are using a parallel port printer with 0.91-9?

Yeah, mine is USB, not parallel.

> There are reports that unless hpoj runs as root, that parallel support does 
> not function correctly, even with correct permissions on the lp devices.

> For example have a look at 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339584

So, since Guilherme's follow-up confirms this, reopening and merging.  I
think "important" is the correct severity; I think USB hpojs are more
common than parallel, so this is still usable for the majority of users.

Thanks,
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