On Wed 11 Aug 2021 at 08:19:37 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 19:54:23 +0100 > Brian <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Brian, > > >As I've said previously, a future CUPS will not support printer drivers. > >HPLIP provides printer drivers. There will be little point in Debian > >packaging HPLIP, wouldn't you agree? But this is a few years away. > > When, eventually, all HP printers run driverless _and_ no no-driverless > printer exist 'in the wild', yes. Until then, I'd expect HPLIP to > remain. Debian is, after all, about choice.
The condition you lay down in the first sentence is not a factor in determining whether Debian packages HPLIP. HPLIP uses PPDs and drivers; a future CUPS will not work with PPDs and drivers. The choice will be to have a working printing system using driverless or a non-working printing system. -- Brian.
