[Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#452348: Bug#452348: HPLIP doesn't mention new user-in-scanner-group requirement, other issues

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Sun Nov 25 11:18:29 UTC 2007


Hi,

Le samedi 24 novembre 2007 à 11:08 +0000, Mark Purcell a écrit :
> Might I suggest that you bring this up with them, ie the group/ individual who 
> set the default installation packages for lenny.  We are the hplip 
> maintainers and users of hplip do expect the HP icon to be in the menu.

> Again, we don't set the default etch package set, we just maintain one of the 
> packages which has been selected for etch. If you don't want the HP icon in 
> the default etch installation, you need to make the argument to who sets the 
> default package that it shouldn't be included. 
> 
> We won't break the package as we would then get a raft of valid bug reports 
> from hplip users wanting the icon to appear in their menu when they install 
> the package.

This is quite understandable.

If you agree that in this case, hplip shouldn't be part of the default
install, unless a printer that will need it is detected, could you
please bring this up to the tasksel maintainer? It will have much more
weight if the maintainer of the package asks for it.

Thanks,
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