[Pkg-cups-devel] hplip on svn.debian.org

[Till Kamppeter]

Mark Purcell wrote:
> I was looking to take a current snap shot of your work and upload again to
> Debian, but have noticed you have now introduced cupsddk as both a
> dependency and a new package within Ubuntu.  As far as I can tell cupsddk
> hasn't been introduced to debian and I haven't seen any intentions of it
> being packaged.  Should we be introducing this package into Debian and
> what does it do for hplip?
> Cc: to cupsys maintainers as well as I'm sure they have a view.

Yes, you should introduce cupsddk. To do so, simply take my Ubuntu 
package. In most cases it simply serves as a PPD generator, also for 
HPLIP. Instead of the huge PPD files there is only the small and light 
source file, the .drv file on the system. The PPD generator 
/usr/lib/cups/drivers/drv generates PPDs on-the-fly then. Also the SpliX 
printer driver package for Samsung uses cupsddk. cupsddk also contains 
some drivers for HP and Epson printers.

    Till