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gutenprint package

printer drivers are provided in libgutenprint2 package, but this isn't mentioned in description of package

Bug #162975 reported by Mantas Kriaučiūnas
2
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gutenprint (Baltix)
New
Undecided
Unassigned
gutenprint (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Till Kamppeter

Bug Description

It seems, that gutenprint printer drivers are provided in libgutenprint2 package, but this isn't mentioned in description of package. Because of this I've installed foomatic-db-gutenprint package, but it seems this is not needed if I use cupsys printing queue and have libgutenprint2 and cupsys-driver-gutenprint packages installed.
Firstly I thought, that cupsys-driver-gutenprint package contains gutenprint printer drivers, but when I examined contents of this package I noticed that there are no printer drivers in cupsys-driver-gutenprint package.

So, I've installed foomatic-db-gutenprint package, but later I've found, that gutenprint printer drivers are provided also in libgutenprint2 package, so, please mention this in libgutenprint2 package description.

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Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik) wrote :

I can confirm that libgutenprint2 installs the driver files and that this is not mentioned in the package description.

Till, if you agree that such a mention is a ppropriate, this should be a trivial fix.

Changed in gutenprint:
assignee: nobody → till-kamppeter
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

The actual driver code is in libgutenprint2, but this package does not make this code accessible for CUPS. It requires cups-driver-gutenprint (CUPS Raster driver frontend with PPD generator) OR ijasgutenprint (IJS driver frontend) together with ijsgutenprint-ppds (compressed PPD files).

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