[Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#790762: src:hplip: Many PPD files for postscript drivers are missing in printer-driver-postscript-hp

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Package: src:hplip
Version: 3.14.6-1
Severity: important

Hi!

While setting up a new print server on the network, we noticed that the binary
package printer-driver-postscript-hp is missing the PPDs for many postscript
printers actually supported by hplip.

Looking at the .orig.tar.gz:

glaubitz at jessie64:/tmp> tar tf hplip_3.14.6.orig.tar.gz |grep postscript
hplip-3.14.6/prnt/ps/hp-designjet_t2300_postscript-ps.ppd.gz
hplip-3.14.6/prnt/ps/hp-designjet_t2500-postscript.ppd.gz
hplip-3.14.6/prnt/ps/hp-designjet_t920-postscript.ppd.gz
hplip-3.14.6/prnt/ps/hp-designjet_z6800_photo-postscript.ppd.gz
hplip-3.14.6/prnt/ps/hp-designjet_z5400-postscript.ppd.gz
hplip-3.14.6/prnt/ps/hp-designjet_t1200_postscript-ps.ppd.gz
hplip-3.14.6/prnt/ps/hp-designjet_t1500-postscript.ppd.gz
hplip-3.14.6/prnt/ps/hp-designjet_z5200_postscript-ps.ppd.gz
hplip-3.14.6/prnt/ps/hp-designjet_t770_postscript-ps.ppd.gz
hplip-3.14.6/prnt/ps/hp-designjet_t1300_postscript-ps.ppd.gz
hplip-3.14.6/prnt/ps/hp-designjet_z6600-postscript.ppd.gz
glaubitz at jessie64:/tmp>

and comparing this list to the actual binary package:

glaubitz at jessie64:/tmp> dget printer-driver-postscript-hp
dget: retrieving file:/net/deb/debian/pool/main/h/hplip/printer-driver-postscript-hp_3.14.6-1_all.deb
glaubitz at jessie64:/tmp> dpkg-deb -c printer-driver-postscript-hp_3.14.6-1_all.deb
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2014-06-15 09:31 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2014-06-15 09:30 ./usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2014-06-15 09:31 ./usr/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2014-06-15 09:30 ./usr/share/cups/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2014-06-15 09:30 ./usr/share/cups/ppd-updaters/
-rw-r--r-- root/root       110 2014-06-15 09:30 ./usr/share/cups/ppd-updaters/printer-driver-postscript-hp.ppd-updater
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2014-06-15 09:31 ./usr/share/doc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2014-06-15 09:31 ./usr/share/doc/printer-driver-postscript-hp/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      4831 2013-08-17 04:19 ./usr/share/doc/printer-driver-postscript-hp/copyright
-rw-r--r-- root/root     73304 2014-06-15 09:24 ./usr/share/doc/printer-driver-postscript-hp/changelog.Debian.gz
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2014-06-15 09:30 ./usr/lib/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2014-06-15 09:30 ./usr/lib/cups/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2014-06-15 09:31 ./usr/lib/cups/driver/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root   1039970 2014-06-15 09:31 ./usr/lib/cups/driver/postscript-hp
glaubitz at jessie64:/tmp>

Apparently the above files are not being installed during build and they
are also not installed into any other of the binary packages built by
src:hplip. This bug also affects the newer version 3.15.6 of hplip
in Ubuntu which is missing the PPD files for the OfficeJet Pro X476dw
printer we wanted to install on location.

Cheers,
Adrian

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