[Bug 641704] New: Replace outdated cups-drivers by a new foomatic-PPDs package

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641704 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641704#c0 Summary: Replace outdated cups-drivers by a new foomatic-PPDs package Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.4 Version: Factory Platform: All OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: ASSIGNED Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: Printing AssignedTo: jsmeix@novell.com ReportedBy: jsmeix@novell.com QAContact: jsmeix@novell.com Found By: Development Blocker: --- Currently the cups-drivers package in openSUSE:Factory is cleaned up, see bug#514994 so that it contains nothing but Foomatic PPDs, i.e. PPDs with those line: ----------------------------------------------------------------- *cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 foomatic-rip" ----------------------------------------------------------------- Currently those PPDs are compiled in a relatively complicated way from various Foomatic sources like foomatic-db-bzr-20080909.tar.bz2 and foomatic-db-engine-bzr-20080909.tar.bz2 which contain the Foomatic database XML files and its engine (mostly perl programs). But Foomatic PPDs are also ready-made available from OpenPrinting.org via a nice HTTP interface, see in particular at http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/database/... the sections "Modification of the output" and "Downloading PPD files". Therefore there is no longer the need to compile Foomatic PPDs from the Foomatic database XML files. Instead those PPDs should be downloaded from OpenPrinting.org and provided "as is" in a foomatic-PPDs package (similar to the PPDs in the manufacturer-PPDs package) The outdated cups-drivers package with its misleading name (PPDs are never ever printer driver programs) should be dropped. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 641704] Replace outdated cups-drivers by a new foomatic-PPDs package

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641704 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641704#c Johannes Meixner changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P3 - Medium -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 641704] Replace outdated cups-drivers by a new foomatic-PPDs package

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641704 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641704#c1 --- Comment #1 from Johannes Meixner 2010-09-24 16:01:15 UTC --- FYI: I am already working on scripts which download Foomatic PPDs from OpenPrinting.org provided that the required actual printer driver programs (usually a Ghostscript printer driver) is provided by openSUSE. After I got some sound knowledge how to download Foomatic PPDs from OpenPrinting.org so that such PPDs actually work in a openSUSE system, I might be able to implement a long planned feature for yast2-printer: See http://en.opensuse.org/Archive:YaST_Printer_redesign#Add_Driver "'Add driver' dialog with 'Download Driver or PPD' activated" see the dialog proposal image at http://en.opensuse.org/images/e/ef/Printer_mschmidkunz_rc2_driverwizard_grey... I.e. "Download Foomatic PPDs from OpenPrinting.org via yast2-printer" but this is another feature/enhancement request for the future... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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29 Sep 29 Sep

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New subject: [Bug 641704] Replace outdated cups-drivers by new OpenPrinting-PPDs-* packages

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641704 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641704#c2 Johannes Meixner changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary|Replace outdated |Replace outdated |cups-drivers by a new |cups-drivers by new |foomatic-PPDs package |OpenPrinting-PPDs-* | |packages --- Comment #2 from Johannes Meixner 2010-09-29 09:32:57 UTC --- A package name foomatic-PPDs is vague. Instead I prefer to provide the OpenPrinting PPDs in several OpenPrinting-PPDs-* sub-packages depending on which kind of driver software is needed so that I can specify appropriate RPM requirements like: OpenPrinting-PPDs-ghostscript for PPDs which use Ghostscript built-in drivers (including uniprint and pswrite for PostScript level 1), requires "ghostscript-library" and "foomatic-filters" OpenPrinting-PPDs-hpijs for PPDs which use the IJS driver /usr/bin/hpijs, requires "hplip-hpijs", "ghostscript-library", and "foomatic-filters" OpenPrinting-PPDs-postscript for PPDs which may use only foomatic-rip but no driver software, requires "foomatic-filters" -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 641704] Replace outdated cups-drivers by new OpenPrinting-PPDs-* packages

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641704 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641704#c3 --- Comment #3 from Johannes Meixner 2010-09-29 09:37:31 UTC --- I filed the resulting bug #642510: "yast2-printer: Adapt 'Driver Packages' dialog for current RPMs" -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.