3.17.11 foomatic_ppd_printers are not installed

[Didier Raboud]

From the 3.17.10 → 3.17.11 patch, it seems that the foomatic PPD printers' files are not installed anymore:

# In Makefile.am

 # PPDs
 ppddir = $(hpppddir)
-dist_ppd_DATA = $(foomatic_ps_printers)
-if FOOMATIC_PPD_INSTALL
-dist_ppd_DATA += $(foomatic_ppd_printers)
-endif
+
+#if FOOMATIC_PPD_INSTALL
+#dist_ppd_DATA += $(foomatic_ppd_printers)
+#endif
 if FOOMATIC_DRV_INSTALL
 cupsdrvdir = $(drvdir)
 cupsdrv_DATA = $(foomatic_drv)
 endif

[Badal (badalkumar)]

Hi,

Now in current HPLIP we are not using foomatic PPDs any more.
So in HPLIP 3.17.11 the foomatic PPD printers files are removed.

Thanks,
Badal Kumar

[Didier Raboud (odyx)]

Hi Badal,

this is not a change which I consider appropriate for a patch-level upgrade (3.17.10 → 3.17.11). This change alone would clearly justify a bump to 3.18.

As the hplip Debian package maintainer, I expected to "just" get the new upstream patch-level release, build, test and upload to unstable. With that change (amongst others, unfortunately), I need to prepare a migration path which is unexpected from a patch-level upgrade.