[Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#482690: Scanners don't work because hplip service is no more available.

[Cédric LEULLIER]

Package: hplip
Version: 2.8.2-1
Severity: normal

There is no more init script (/etc/init.d/hplip) in the package hplip, so the hplip service is no more available and tools like
hp-tools doesn't work anymore.
As describes in the file /usr/share/doc/hplip/README.Debian.gz, SANE needs the hplip service running to be able to load the hpaio
driver.

For information, my printer is a HP Photosmart C3180 and it worked very well under Debian Etch.
So i tried to use the old Etch script (/etc/init.d/hplip) with Lenny, but it failed because it tries to launch two daemons,
/usr/sbin/hpiod and /usr/sbin/hpssd. The problem is that /usr/sbin/hpiod is no more available in Lenny package and the script doesn't
launch /usr/sbin/hpssd if /usr/sbin/hpiod is not present.

I think that many bugs will be fixed if the hplip service becomes available once again.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-486
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages hplip depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.107           add and remove users and groups
ii  coreutils                6.10-3          The GNU core utilities
ii  cupsys                   1.3.7-5         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  hplip-data               2.8.2-1         HP Linux Printing and Imaging - da
ii  libc6                    2.7-10          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcupsys2               1.3.7-5         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libjpeg62                6b-14           The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libsane                  1.0.19-6        API library for scanners
ii  libsnmp15                5.4.1~dfsg-7+b1 SNMP (Simple Network Management Pr
ii  libssl0.9.8              0.9.8g-10       SSL shared libraries
ii  libusb-0.1-4             2:0.1.12-11     userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base                 3.2-11          Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  python                   2.5.2-1         An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-imaging           1.1.6-2         Python Imaging Library
ii  python-support           0.7.7           automated rebuilding support for P

Versions of packages hplip recommends:
ii  cupsys-client              1.3.7-5       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  hpijs                      2.8.2+2.8.2-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - gs
ii  hpijs-ppds                 2.8.2+2.8.2-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - HP
ii  hplip-gui                  2.8.2-1       HP Linux Printing and Imaging - GU
ii  openprinting-ppds          20080211-2    OpenPrinting printer support - Pos

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