Printer support

ghorvath · 2015-10-16 21:09:43

I just checked that bunsen-meta-printer-support depends on cups, cups-pdf, system-config-printer, printer-driver-hpijs and hplip.

Now, cups-pdf, printer-driver-hpijs and hplip all pull in cups, so I am wondering if it is really necessary to make it depending on cups, as well.

Further, cups-pdf is a transitional dummy package only to install printer-driver-cups-pdf. Why not then make the dependency on the real package instead of the dummy one? As far as I see, up to wheezy it was called cups-pdf, and from jessie it is called printer-driver-cups-pdf and cups-pdf is only a dummy package for it.

johnraff · 2015-10-17 09:11:56

ghorvath wrote:

Now, cups-pdf, printer-driver-hpijs and hplip all pull in cups, so I am wondering if it is really necessary to make it depending on cups, as well.

Not really, but since cups is the key package it does no harm to explicitly call for it.

Further, cups-pdf is a transitional dummy package only to install printer-driver-cups-pdf. Why not then make the dependency on the real package instead of the dummy one? As far as I see, up to wheezy it was called cups-pdf, and from jessie it is called printer-driver-cups-pdf and cups-pdf is only a dummy package for it.

Thank you for catching this.
"cups-pdf" was inherited from CrunchBang, and we should update the name, as you suggest.

johnraff · 2015-12-10 08:32:29

Dependency changed to printer-driver-cups-pdf in bunsen-welcome 8.5-1.

#1 2015-10-16 21:09:43

Printer support

#2 2015-10-17 09:11:56

Re: Printer support

#3 2015-12-10 08:32:29

Re: Printer support

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