hplip-3.17.11 source tarball contains compiled binaries

Sorry for misunderstanding - would you mind removing these binaries (not whole tarball)? Because they must not be there (all operating systems should build all these binaries by themselves - because they can have different configurations for compiling hplip) - they seems like leftovers after package testing and it only creates more work for package maintainers, whose need to delete these files.

Hi,

The binaries( hpps, hpcups,dat2drv ) in the tar ball will be removed in next release.

Thanks,
Badal Kumar

Thank you, Badal!

HPLIP 3.17.11 also includes compiled library files:

From the diff:

 prnt/plugins/hbpl1-arm32.so | Bin 0 -> 41452 bytes
 prnt/plugins/hbpl1-arm64.so | Bin 0 -> 48056 bytes
 prnt/plugins/hbpl1-x86_32.so | Bin 0 -> 49968 bytes
 prnt/plugins/hbpl1-x86_64.so | Bin 0 -> 49528 bytes
 prnt/plugins/lj-arm32.so | Bin 0 -> 69815 bytes
 prnt/plugins/lj-arm64.so | Bin 0 -> 70616 bytes
 prnt/plugins/lj-x86_32.so | Bin 0 -> 61043 bytes
 prnt/plugins/lj-x86_64.so | Bin 0 -> 74496 bytes

In addition to the already reported:

 dat2drv | Bin 0 -> 383070 bytes
 hpcups | Bin 0 -> 921228 bytes
 hpps | Bin 0 -> 37557 bytes
 locatedriver | Bin 0 -> 92962 bytes

3.18.3 lost:

* dat2drv
* hpcups
* hpps

but still has:

* locatedriver
* prnt/plugins/hbpl1-arm32.so
* prnt/plugins/hbpl1-arm64.so
* prnt/plugins/hbpl1-x86_32.so
* prnt/plugins/hbpl1-x86_64.so
* prnt/plugins/lj-arm32.so
* prnt/plugins/lj-arm64.so
* prnt/plugins/lj-x86_32.so
* prnt/plugins/lj-x86_64.so

I agree with Didier - 3.18.3 has still

* locatedriver
* prnt/plugins/hbpl1-arm32.so
* prnt/plugins/hbpl1-arm64.so
* prnt/plugins/hbpl1-x86_32.so
* prnt/plugins/hbpl1-x86_64.so
* prnt/plugins/lj-arm32.so
* prnt/plugins/lj-arm64.so
* prnt/plugins/lj-x86_32.so
* prnt/plugins/lj-x86_64.so

which are unneeded (if they can be built from source files in tarball) and non-functional in some cases - because they are built in your environment, anyone, who has slightly different environment (other library or something else), cannot use precompiled binaries. So the solution - removing the binaries when hplip isn't compiled with class driver support - IMHO isn't complete solution. They shouldn't be shipped in source tarball at all.