Bug#312290: [Pkg-cups-devel] Re: Bug#312290: marked as done (cups does not has dependency to ijsgimpprint, Epson printers does not print)

Kenshi Muto kmuto at debian.org
Tue Aug 16 14:36:36 UTC 2005


At Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:19:41 +0100,
Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 06:03:23AM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> I'm not sure this Suggests is appropriate: ijsgimpprint can't work
> with cups without foomatic to provide the needed PPDs (from
> foomatic-db-gutenprint, which IIRC need generating).  Also,
> ijsgimpprint no longer exists; the correct package (and IJS server
> name) is ijsgutenprint.

> Even if the foomatic stuff is installed, the native CUPS driver is
> surely the best choice (cupsys-driver-gutenprint), so I would be
> reluctant to suggest a more complex alternative because of that:
> the average user should only require the best supported, simplest
> and most robust, and most well tested driver configuration.
> 
> IMHO ijsgutenprint is only useful for non-CUPS spoolers which must
> work with ghostscript-centric filters.

Thanks, I see.
I removed ijsgutenprint from Suggests: again.
So.., how to treat this bug should we? reassign?

Thanks,
-- 
Kenshi Muto
kmuto at debian.org




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