On Sat, 05 Feb 2005, Hervé Eychenne wrote:
> Sorry, I don't know the interactions/responsability of interacting
> packages... but how can sane "guess" that it should add hpaio driver
Basically, one package must not, ever, touch another's config files.
> > But it was done by the libsane maintainer in sid already,
>
> I don't understand quite well... Ok, I'm using sarge, but every sane-
> related package has the same version in sarge and sid, except xsane
> and xsane-common. Are theses two packages responsible for the
Well, libsane changelog (version 1.0.15-6)
* debian/patches/22_dll.conf_debian.dpatch
+ Updated; added the sm3840 backend provided by libsane-extras and the
hpaio backend provided by hplip (closes: #291435).
Maybe you did not let dpkg update your /etc/sane.d/dll.conf conffile?
> > and it IS explained on the hplip readme too (thus, I am closing this bug).
>
> That it is documented is a good thing, but things have to be done
> automatically/transparently wherever possible.
As I said, the libsane package is the only one which can do this.
> > Which printer?
> HP PSC 2175
Thanks for the feedback.
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