[Bug 24999] repeated printer drivers on HPLIP
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/24999 Task: ubuntu foomatic-filters-ppds Assignee: Martin Pitt = Matthias Klose -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 24999] repeated printer drivers on HPLIP
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/24999 Task: ubuntu hplip-ppds Assignee: (unassigned) = Martin Pitt -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 24999] repeated printer drivers on HPLIP
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/24999 Comment: gnome-cups-manager should indeed move to foomatic-db as suggested by Mantas to avoid duplication. But this should be handled by GNOME upstream and is not a Ubuntu issue. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 24999] repeated printer drivers on HPLIP
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/24999 Comment: Martin Pool wrote: What's even worse is that some printers, such as the photosmart 7660, show up under HP (HPLIP) but *not* under HP. This is extremely confusing if you happen to have the Manufacturer field already set to HP and therefore don't search there for other alternatives. This is a seperate bug. You can use the same simple fix as https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/hplip-ppds/+bug/34987 to solve this. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 24999] repeated printer drivers on HPLIP
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/24999 Comment: Rocco Stanzione wrote: I'd prefer to see the ppds consolidated into a single package. Having recently installed an HP driver that required hplip drivers, it's not a very straightforward process to figure out which package I need. I don't see any reason for this since both packages foomatic-filters-ppds and hplip-ppds are installed by default in Ubuntu. You don't need to figure it out. These are separate packages because they come from different upstream projects and are maintained by different Debian maintainers. Rocco Stanzione wrote: The CUPS web interface also suffers from the problem of separate HP/HP (HPLIP) makes, which confuses administration as well. I recall a similar issue in Windows where the add printer dialog had both HP and Hewlett Packard listed as manufacturers. As mentioned to Martin Pool this is a seperate bug. You can use the same simple fix as https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/hplip- ppds/+bug/34987 to solve this. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 24999] repeated printer drivers on HPLIP
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/24999 Comment: I'm using Dapper 20060319 foomatic-filters-ppds 20060113-1 hplip-ppds 0.9.6-1ubuntu6 This is because gnome-cups-manager and CUPS Add Printer webinterface look for PPDs in /usr/share/cups/model. Both the foomatic-filters-ppds and hplip package (installed by default on Ubuntu) provide a symlink in this directory. foomatic-ppds symlink points to /usr/share/ppd and hplip symlink points to /usr/share/ppd/hplip. These symlinks overlap each other causing gnome-cups-add and CUPS add printer webinterface to list duplicate driver entries that are actually the same files. A long term solution to avoid this would be achieved if all PPD providing packages followed this specification: http://wiki.debian.org/PpdFileStructureSpecification. I'm trying to persuade the Debain maintainers involved but this will take a long time. A simple workaround is to remove the hplip symlink in /usr/share/cups/model provide by hplip-ppds package. The Ubuntu devs should include this simple fix before the release of Dapper. The printer drivers known to CUPS can be listed with the following command in a terminal: $ lpinfo -m I have run this command first (see cupsdriversbefore attachment) and again after removing the /usr/share/cups/model/hplip symlink (see cupdriversafter attachment). When counting the lines in these files we see that 443 duplicate drivers have been removed: $ wc -l cupsdriversbefore 3749 cupsdriversbefore $ wc -l cupsdriversafter 3306 cupsdriversafter -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 24999] repeated printer drivers on HPLIP
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/24999 - Changed attachments: Added: Printer drivers known to CUPS in Dapper 20060309 http://librarian.launchpad.net/1786908/cupsdriversbefore -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 24999] repeated printer drivers on HPLIP
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/24999 - Changed attachments: Added: Printer drivers known to CUPS after removing hplip symlink http://librarian.launchpad.net/1786909/cupsdriversafter -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 24999] repeated printer drivers on HPLIP
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/24999 Comment: I'd prefer to see the ppds consolidated into a single package. Having recently installed an HP driver that required hplip drivers, it's not a very straightforward process to figure out which package I need, and the CUPS web interface also suffers from the problem of separate HP/HP (HPLIP) makes, which confuses administration as well. I recall a similar issue in Windows where the add printer dialog had both HP and Hewlett Packard listed as manufacturers. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 24999] repeated printer drivers on HPLIP
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/24999 Task: ubuntu gnome-cups-manager Sourcepackagename: gnome-cups-manager = foomatic-filters-ppds -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 24999] repeated printer drivers on HPLIP
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/24999 Task: ubuntu foomatic-filters-ppds Binarypackagename: gnome-cups-manager = foomatic-filters-ppds -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 24999] repeated printer drivers on HPLIP
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/24999 Also affects: hplip-ppds (Ubuntu) Severity: Normal Priority: (none set) Status: Unconfirmed -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 24999] repeated printer drivers on HPLIP
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/24999 Task: ubuntu hplip-ppds Severity: Normal = Major Status: Unconfirmed = Confirmed -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 24999] repeated printer drivers on HPLIP
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/24999 Task: ubuntu foomatic-filters-ppds Severity: Normal = Major Status: Unconfirmed = Confirmed -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 24999] repeated printer drivers on HPLIP
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/24999 Comment: Sorry guys, I don't have an hplip printer and can't test this at all. If merely removing the symlink from the hplip package works as expected, then we can do this easily, of course. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 24999] repeated printer drivers on HPLIP
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/24999 Comment: On 27 Feb 2006, Martin Pitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Martin, Sorry guys, I don't have an hplip printer and can't test this at all. If merely removing the symlink from the hplip package works as expected, then we can do this easily, of course. I can investigate more when I get home. But you don't need an hp printer to see that there are nearly-duplicate files between the two packages, which is the root of the problem. I don't know if there are any substantive differences, or if people would ever want to use one version rather than the other. (If they do, then there's still a bug because it's not easy for them to work out which one they do want.) I'd like to suggest we either 1- remove the ppds from one package or the other 2- put the colliding drivers into conflicting packages (if some users will want one and some other other) 3- change the names so that they say for example hp 7660 (cups) and hp 7660 (foomatic) -- Martin -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 24999] repeated printer drivers on HPLIP
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/24999 Comment: Also, if you run gnome-cups-manager from a terminal, you see many messages complaining about this: ** (gnome-cups-manager:19854): WARNING **: Two ppds have driver == 'hpijs (recom mended)' -hplip/HP-PSC_2210-hpijs.ppd (HP PSC 2210 Foomatic/hpijs[1]) and -foomatic-ppds/hplip/HP-PSC_2210-hpijs.ppd (HP PSC 2210 Foomatic/hpijs) [1] ** (gnome-cups-manager:19854): WARNING **: Two ppds have driver == 'hpijs (recom mended)' -hplip/HP-PSC_2300-hpijs.ppd (HP PSC 2300 Foomatic/hpijs[1]) and -foomatic-ppds/hplip/HP-PSC_2300-hpijs.ppd (HP PSC 2300 Foomatic/hpijs) [1] ** (gnome-cups-manager:19854): WARNING **: Two ppds have driver == 'hpijs (recom mended)' -hplip/HP-PSC_2350-hpijs.ppd (HP PSC 2350 Foomatic/hpijs[1]) and -foomatic-ppds/hplip/HP-PSC_2350-hpijs.ppd (HP PSC 2350 Foomatic/hpijs) [1] -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 24999] repeated printer drivers on HPLIP
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/24999 Comment: What's even worse is that some printers, such as the photosmart 7660, show up under HP (HPLIP) but *not* under HP. This is extremely confusing if you happen to have the Manufacturer field already set to HP and therefore don't search there for other alternatives. This is with hplip 0.9.6-1ubuntu4 and foomatic-filters-ppds 20060113-1 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 24999] repeated printer drivers on HPLIP
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/24999 Comment: Martin, do you think any of those solutions are feasible? -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 24999] repeated printer drivers on HPLIP
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/24999 Comment: repeated printer drivers on HPLIP - good solution for this would be patching gnome-cups-manager to use *original* linux printer drivers database - foomatic-db instead of PPD files, generated from foomatic-db. Some printer configuration utilities, like Foomatic-GUI, already uses foomatic-db. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
