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Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, 09 Jan 2006, Pascal De Vuyst wrote:
>> hplip-ppds package incorrectly uses *Manufacturer: "HP (HPLIP)" inside PPDs.
>
> Yes, this is done on purpose because of the myriad of other sources of
> possibly non-compatible PPDs for HP printers managed by hpijs (i.e. HPLIP).
>
> Are we going to remove all HP PPDs from all other PPD-installing packages
> in Debian, including the crap that comes with cupsys by default, and the
> ones in foomatic* ?
An alternate approach, used by Foomatic and Gutenprint, is to put the
driver name after the model:
zgrep '^\*NickName:'
/usr/share/cups/model/gutenprint/5.0/en/stp-escp2-c60.5.0.ppd.gz
*NickName: "EPSON Stylus C60 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.0.0-rc2"
$ zgrep Nick
/usr/share/cups/model/foomatic-ppds/HP/HP-LaserJet_1320-Postscript.ppd.gz
*ShortNickName: "HP LaserJet 1320 Postscript"
*NickName: "HP LaserJet 1320 Foomatic/Postscript (recommended)"
$ zgrep Nick
/usr/share/cups/model/foomatic-ppds/HP/HP-LaserJet_1320-hpijs.ppd.gz
*ShortNickName: "HP LaserJet 1320 hpijs"
*NickName: "HP LaserJet 1320 Foomatic/hpijs"
This neatly avoids cluttering up the Manufacturer, and as a nice
bonus, all of the drivers for the same model sort together in the
list, to it's easier for users to find the right driver.
Regards,
Roger
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