[Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#768859: [printer-driver-hpcups] upgrading the packages overwrites the ppd

[Brian Potkin]

On Sun 09 Nov 2014 at 18:50:44 +0100, Francesco Muzio wrote:

Hello Francesco. Thank you for your report.

> I have found a temporary workaround for the bug #655106
> I use the hpijs ppd instead of hpcups and my printer works well with
> margins.
> 
> Unfortunately despite my printer has been installed using hpijs
> drivers after each package upgrading who triggers the PPD updating
> the PPD associated at hpcups overwrite automatically the original
> PPD and the printer driver is automatically switch to hpcups.
> 
> the following output shows an piece of "apt-get upgrade" result with
> my printer driver updated by hpcups insted of hpijs.
> 
> Elaborazione dei trigger per cups (1.7.5-7)...
> Updating PPD files for hpcups ...
> PPD for printer Deskjet_F4200 updated
> Updating PPD files for hpijs ...
> Configurazione di hplip (3.14.6-1+b2)...
> Creating/updating hplip user account...

This issue looks very much like #686653:

   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686653

Any testing which is done to try to pin it would be appreciated.

Regards,

Brian.