Why does ubuntu-desktop depend on foomatic-db-gutenprint?

Pascal De Vuyst pascal.devuyst at gmail.com
Thu Aug 24 23:07:38 BST 2006


Why does ubuntu-desktop depend on foomatic-db-gutenprint?

foomatic-db-gutenprint is only needed to generate gutenprint PPDs for
LPRng or LPR spooler with foomatic-ppdfile for use with ijsgutenprint.
Since Ubuntu has settled on the CUPS spooler and
cupsys-driver-gutenprint package generates cups-raster PPDs (for use
with CUPS only) for all gutenprint printers the foomatic-db-gutenprint
package only wastes space. A default Ubuntu desktop should not have
foomatic-db-gutenprint installed, please remove the dependency. Also
foomatic-db-gutenprint and ijsgutenprint could even be moved to universe.

It would also be nice if the cupsys-driver-gutenprint package in Edgy
could be synced with the final cupsys-driver-gutenprint 5.0.0-1 from
debian, the debian package is about to enter testing and version 5.0.0
fixes a number of Malone bugs.



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