[Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#517297: [Bug 310677] Re: hp photosmart 5380 fails to scan with debian/hplip 2.6.8b and 2.6.12

[Mark Purcell]

On Saturday 04 April 2009 02:07:33 Jason Callough wrote:
> This is a Debian specific issue

Jason,

Thanks for the pointer.

I'm the Debian maintainer and am looking for a better way to setup the package 
so that so many users don't have this sort of issue.

It seems to come down to the udev rules and which permissions are used.

With the Debian package we have tried making various combinations of lp and 
scanner group, but in the end people get confused. Of course changing hasn't 
helped either.  With the Debian package of 3.9.2 I have setup so that all 
members of the lp group get access to printers and scanners. (See Debian bug 
http://bugs.debian.org/517297)

The debian NEWS which is displayed when people install the package should be 
displaying the following message:

hplip (3.9.2-2) unstable; urgency=low

  Access to the full functionality of hplip; ink check, toolbox,
  printing and scanning is now provided for members of the 'lp'
  group.  The use of the scanner group is depreciated.

 -- Mark Purcell <msp at debian.org>  Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:09:23 +1100


Ideally what I would like to see and I think the ubuntu folk have managed is 
to give the console user full access to all plugged in devices and the rest of 
users don't.

In Debian we have also played with the plugdev group, but that has it's own 
set of problems as well.

Mark
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