Bug#312290: [Pkg-cups-devel] Re: Bug#312290: marked as done (cups does not has dependency to ijsgimpprint, Epson printers does not print)

[Roger Leigh]

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Kenshi Muto <kmuto at debian.org> writes:

> At Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:19:41 +0100,
> Roger Leigh wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 06:03:23AM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
>> I'm not sure this Suggests is appropriate: ijsgimpprint can't work
>> with cups without foomatic to provide the needed PPDs (from
>> foomatic-db-gutenprint, which IIRC need generating).  Also,
>> ijsgimpprint no longer exists; the correct package (and IJS server
>> name) is ijsgutenprint.
>
>> Even if the foomatic stuff is installed, the native CUPS driver is
>> surely the best choice (cupsys-driver-gutenprint), so I would be
>> reluctant to suggest a more complex alternative because of that:
>> the average user should only require the best supported, simplest
>> and most robust, and most well tested driver configuration.
>> 
>> IMHO ijsgutenprint is only useful for non-CUPS spoolers which must
>> work with ghostscript-centric filters.
>
> Thanks, I see.
> I removed ijsgutenprint from Suggests: again.
> So.., how to treat this bug should we? reassign?

The submitter did not provide a huge amount of detail, so I'm not
sure of the exact circumstances.

If they used ijsgimpprint with another spooler, and then switched to
cups, ijsgimpprint is not longer the most appropriate solution.
There's not a lot that can be done here.

If they previously used Foomatic + (gs + stp) or (gs + ijsgimpprint),
they need to modify the queue to use ijsgutenprint.  There's very
little cupsys itself can do here, though dependencies on other
packages e.g. foomatic might be updated.  Even so, there is no
automatic upgrade; the user still has to manually modify the queue
(unlike for cupsys-driver-gutenprint, where I upgrade the queues
automatically).


Regards,
Roger

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