#915634 printer-driver-hpcups: PPDs for fax functionality

Package:
printer-driver-hpcups
Source:
hplip
Description:
HP Linux Printing and Imaging - CUPS Raster driver (hpcups)
Submitter:
Brian Potkin
Date:
2018-12-06 21:15:03 UTC
Severity:
minor
#915634#5
Date:
2018-12-05 12:57:04 UTC
From:
To:
The file list for printer-driver-hpcups is:

/usr/lib/cups/filter/hpcups
/usr/lib/cups/filter/hpcupsfax
/usr/share/bug/printer-driver-hpcups/presubj
/usr/share/bug/printer-driver-hpcups/script
/usr/share/cups/drv/hpcups.drv
/usr/share/cups/ppd-updaters/printer-driver-hpcups.ppd-updater
/usr/share/doc/printer-driver-hpcups/NEWS.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/printer-driver-hpcups/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/printer-driver-hpcups/changelog.Debian.i386.gz
/usr/share/doc/printer-driver-hpcups/copyright
/usr/share/ppd/hplip/HP/HP-Fax-hpcups.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/hplip/HP/HP-Fax2-hpcups.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/hplip/HP/HP-Fax3-hpcups.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/hplip/HP/HP-Fax4-hpcups.ppd.gz

But the package description says:

 It does not provide PPDs for the fax functionality of HP's multi-
 function devices.

Shouldn't that be

 It is also required for HPLIP fax support.

as is in the printer-driver-hpijs package?

Regards,

Brian.
#915634#10
Date:
2018-12-06 20:57:57 UTC
From:
To:
Le mercredi, 5 décembre 2018, 13.57:04 h CET Brian Potkin a écrit :

To be fair, I have no idea how Fax functionality is supposed to work; whether
it does, and if it's still useful at all. :-)

Instead of moving these files around, what would you think about dropping it
entirely?
#915634#17
Date:
2018-12-06 21:12:03 UTC
From:
To:
Fax is a rather old mean of communication, more and more replaced by
e-mails with scanned documents attached. For me it is 4 years ago when I
had to send a fax the last time.

Perhaps in some countries fax is still more important.

As many HP devices support fax and HP supports their fax function with
their software I would not simply drop it, but move the PPD files for
fax to the part of HPLIP which contains the fax-supporting software (the
/usr/lib/cups/backend/hpfax backend).

By the way, also some of HP's PPDs for Postscript printers can need a
part of HPLIP, the /usr/lib/cups/filter/hpps filter, but this one is
already in the printer-driver-postscript-hp package.

So what I see has to be done is only moving the fax PPDs into the
package with the hpfax backend. Otherwise the printer-driver-... binary
packages of HPLIP seem to be OK.

    Till