FF Exception: system-config-printer should prioritize hpijs for HP printers, as hpcups is broken

[Till Kamppeter]

Binary package hint: system-config-printer

For some months now HPLIP has two driver flavors, the IJS-based hpijs which it had already all the time and the new CUPS-Raster based hpcups. HP's intention is to migrate to the latter. We tried the migration in Ubuntu Karmic, but it turned out that the new driver has still very many regressions:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bugs?field.tag=hpcups

In the HPLIP package we did already the migration back, the binary package "hpijs" converts hpcups-based print queues to hpijs when it is installed or updated.

Also system-config-printer should follow this trend and pre-select the hpijs driver for HP printers. The fix is a one-line change (of data, not of code) with no risk of regressions. Only the priority score for hpcups gets changed to give higher priority to hpijs.

All reported hpcups problems get solved by switching over to hpijs according to above-mentioned bug reports.There is no known hpijs bug which gets worked around by switching to hpcups.

This is a temporary workaround for Ubuntu Karmic. If the hpcups bugs get fixed we will remove the patch in later Ubuntu versions.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

The fixed package is uploaded and in the "Waiting for Approval" queue.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This sounds relatively safe (and the patch is small), and since we have used hpijs for most of karmic and all previous stables, and you already did half of the transition back to hpijs, I think we should get this.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package system-config-printer - 1.1.12+git20090826-0ubuntu7

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system-config-printer (1.1.12+git20090826-0ubuntu7) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/75_give-priority-to-hpijs.patch: Temporary workaround for
    the regressions in the new hpcups driver of HPLIP. As long as the
    problems are not fixed, we prioritize the old hpijs by this patch
    (LP: #452532).

 -- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:57:09 +0200