[Pkg-hpijs-devel] moving hp-check to hplip-dbg

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmail.com
Thu Apr 15 13:48:42 UTC 2010


On 04/14/2010 03:11 AM, Mark Purcell wrote:
> I don't think that hplip-dbg is the correct location for hp-check.
>
> The -dbg packages generally only contain debugging symbols and are mainly used
> by _advanced_ users trying to debug segmentation faults and the like.
>
> hp-check is more a general purpose debugging tool suited to average users.
> Indeed I have setup presub&  bug/script to automatically call hp-check so that
> bug reports to Debian automatically have the details from hp-check included.
>
> The majority of people will never install a -dbg package, but everyone who
> reports a bug, should be including the details provided by hp-check.
>
> Unrelated, could I ask that when you do an ubuntu release, could you also tag
> that release in svn as well.
>
>   $ svn-buidpackage --svn-only-tag
>
> I have tagged a few, but not all ubuntu releases.  The tagged releases appear
> in pkg-hpijs/hplip/tags/...

Problem is that hp-check depends on cups-config, which is in 
libcups2-dev. Will we have to depend on libcups2-dev and pull in part of 
the development stack with it?

WDYT what should we do?

    Till



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