Ubuntu
foomatic-db package

  1. Bug #59324
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 59324

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Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst) wrote :

What version of Ubuntu are you using?

I confirm this using Edgy 20061015.

If you currently set up a printer with gnome-cups-manager, KDE Print Manager or CUPS web interface, e.g. a Minolta MagiColor 2430DL that uses foo2zjs binary driver you are able to do so without problems even if the foo2zjs package is not installed. This is also the case for printer drivers that have no Ubuntu package, e.g. drv_z42 (Lexmark X73). To avoid this I believe we should split up foomatic-db into foomatic-db-gs-builtin and foomatic-db-gs-filter. The package foomatic-db-gs-filter should depend on ALL the binary Ghostscript filter packages available in Ubuntu like foo2zjs, pnm2ppa, ...
We should remove drivers an options from foomatic-db-gs-filter that have no Ubuntu package.

Off course we should have as much drivers as possible packed for Ubuntu, if the driver license allows it. It should be no problem to pack drivers drv_z42 and ptouch for Ubuntu since both seem to have a GPL license.