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Printer Driver Packages Suggested Changes

Created: 06/08/2006 by ?PascalDeVuyst ?BR Last update: 07/08/2006 ?BR

Introduction

This wikipage suggests the changes that should be considered to let the current packages in Debian, that provide printer drivers, conform with the PpdFileStructureSpecification. It also lists some issues and suggests improvements for the current Debian foomatic packages. I invite the Debian maintainers of the packages described below in particular and everyone who is interested to discuss the changes listed in this wikipage on the [http://lists.debian.org/debian-printing/ debian-printing mailing list]. Any comments or suggestions are welcome!!!

Printer Driver Packages in Debian

The following binary printer driver, prebuilt PPD and Foomatic database packages are available at this moment in Debian (feel free to add missing ones):

Suggested changes to packages

foomatic-db-engine

foomatic-filters-ppds

Instead of this package we should have 2 seperate packages with prebuilt PPDs: linuxprinting.org-gs-builtin-ppds and linuxprinting.org-gs-filter-ppds:

I think it is better to use the name linuxprinting.org instead of foomatic-filters since there are a lot of other packages that actually need foomatic-filters (e.g. hpijs, ijsgutenprint, ...) and they don't have foomatic-filters in their package name.

Suggested changes:

Currently the foomatic-filters-ppds package is generated from the tar.gz source with the same name from linuxprinting.org. It would be better to generate prebuilt PPDs from foomatic-db source.

linuxprinting.org-ppds

hpijs-ppds

Therefore I think it would be better to generate package hpijs-ppds from foomatic-db-hpijs, this would include ALL hpijs PPDs and the PpdFileStructureSpecification *NickName indication. This would also make sure that PPDs in hpijs-ppds are the same as PPDs generated from foomatic-db-hpijs at any time.

foomatic-db

foomatic-db-hpijs

cupsys

cupsys-driver-gutenprint

gs-esp

lpr

lprng

hp-ppd

We need more printer driver packages in Debian

We should provide more printer drivers in Debian, the drivers listed below currently have no packages in Debian and have a GPL license. Feel free to add any drivers missing in the lists.

Ghostscript filter drivers

cups-raster drivers

Old resolved issues