[Bug 24999] repeated printer drivers on HPLIP

[Martin Pool]

Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/24999

Comment:
On 27 Feb 2006, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:

Hi Martin,

> Sorry guys, I don't have an hplip printer and can't test this at all. If
> merely removing the symlink from the hplip package works as expected,
> then we can do this easily, of course.

I can investigate more when I get home.  But you don't need an hp
printer to see that there are nearly-duplicate files between the two 
packages, which is the root of the problem.

I don't know if there are any substantive differences, or if people
would ever want to use one version rather than the other.  (If they do,
then there's still a bug because it's not easy for them to work out
which one they do want.)  I'd like to suggest we either

 1- remove the ppds from one package or the other

 2- put the colliding drivers into conflicting packages (if some users
    will want one and some other other)

 3- change the names so that they say for example "hp 7660 (cups)" 
    and "hp 7660 (foomatic)"

-- 
Martin