On 06/12/2018 21:57, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
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Le mercredi, 5 décembre 2018, 13.57:04 h CET Brian Potkin a écrit :
The file list for printer-driver-hpcups is:
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But the package description says:
It does not provide PPDs for the fax functionality of HP's multi-
function devices.
Shouldn't that be
It is also required for HPLIP fax support.
as is in the printer-driver-hpijs package?
To be fair, I have no idea how Fax functionality is supposed to work; whether
it does, and if it's still useful at all. :-)
Instead of moving these files around, what would you think about dropping it
entirely?
Fax is a rather old mean of communication, more and more replaced by
e-mails with scanned documents attached. For me it is 4 years ago when I
had to send a fax the last time.
Perhaps in some countries fax is still more important.
As many HP devices support fax and HP supports their fax function with
their software I would not simply drop it, but move the PPD files for
fax to the part of HPLIP which contains the fax-supporting software (the
/usr/lib/cups/backend/hpfax backend).
By the way, also some of HP's PPDs for Postscript printers can need a
part of HPLIP, the /usr/lib/cups/filter/hpps filter, but this one is
already in the printer-driver-postscript-hp package.
So what I see has to be done is only moving the fax PPDs into the
package with the hpfax backend. Otherwise the printer-driver-... binary
packages of HPLIP seem to be OK.
Till