Bug#995792: printing text files

2022-11-02 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le dimanche, 30 octobre 2022, 00.43:02 h CET Thorsten Alteholz a écrit :
> The problem seems to be that it was installed on a system without need
> for it. Wouldn't there be a better package than printer-driver-all-enforce
> to add a Recommends: for it?  Maybe OdyX can shed some light on it?

The printer-driver-all metapackage was introduced as an easy way to get the 
widest possible support for all potential printing drivers.  As britney 
doesn't look (or enforce) recommends, the source package also ships printer-
driver-all-enforce that has the same recommends as depends, to abuse britney 
in keeping all drivers in testing.  The latter package was not really meant to 
be installed or used.

Anyway, when that mechanism was introduced, printer-driver-all was a 
dependency of task-printing, but for buster (or bullseye), I had decided to 
drop that task, and let cups rely on driverless printing by default.  I'd say 
printer-driver-all is still a useful "if you have printing problems, install 
that with its recommends", but definitely not as central to the printing stack 
as it used to be.

As for indexbraille, as Samuel wrote, it was a mimetype mismatch, so that's 
solved!

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OdyX

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Bug#995792: printing text files

2022-10-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello,

Thorsten Alteholz, le sam. 29 oct. 2022 22:43:02 +, a ecrit:
> The problem seems to be that it was installed on a system without need for
> it.

That's just a small part of the problem. The real problem is a bug in
the matching rule, which I have now fixed.

> Wouldn't there be a better package than printer-driver-all-enforce to
> add a Recommends: for it?

Not sure to understand the question: isn't printer-driver-all-enforce
precisely meant to install all drivers?

Samuel



Bug#995792: printing text files

2022-10-29 Thread Thorsten Alteholz

Hi everybody,

from my point of view it totally makes sense, when you install a printer 
driver to print files on braille printers, that this software does what 
it is supposed to do.


The problem seems to be that it was installed on a system without need 
for it. Wouldn't there be a better package than printer-driver-all-enforce 
to add a Recommends: for it?  Maybe Odyx can shed some light on it?


  Thorsten