Comment 10 for bug 2028054

I believe the analysis in comment #3 was based on a scenario when we were switching the printing stack to snaps in mantic. This has been rolled back because GUI management of the snap stack is not possible. So hplip has been re-seeded, and needs to get re-promoted before mantic beta.

Which means we need to go through this MIR as normal.

Unfortunately despite python-reportlab being used only for an uncommon feature, dropping the dependency would make for bad UX when a user does need this feature (there's no code to tell the user they need to install python-reportlab, it'll just crash/fail).

Avoiding promoting this package to main would be fine, but for the moment we don't have a clear path for doing so.