Hi,
OdyX has asked me on IRC hgow we should rename HPLIP's printer driver
package.
First, we need to determine which binary packages of HPLIP are printer
driver packages. Only these get renamed, all the others not.
Printer driver packages are those which provide PPD files, and these are
the packages which use the PPD updating facility of our CUPS package. So
we simply look into /usr/share/cups/ppd-updaters/ and by that we
identify the following packages as printer driver packages:
- hpijs
- hpijs-ppds
- hplip
- hplip-cups
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.
WDYT?
Till
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