Le 11/08/2021 à 12:36, Brian a écrit :
On Wed 11 Aug 2021 at 08:19:37 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 19:54:23 +0100
Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> 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.
Or to have a non working printing solution because the new one does not
cover the full range pof printing setups. Autodiscovery is good when
possible, but removing any possibility not to use it is a fault, when
autodiscovery does not work. I hope before cups is made unable to use
PPD, the driverless system is made able to be given remote printers
adresses and capabilities (also thinking to old printers which do not
advertise capabilities the way you want).
