[hpoj-devel] Diffs between PPD for PSC1300 and PSC1310

[Kees B. <kee...@xs...>]

Hi,

This may be a non-issue, but still I want to mention it.

Looking at the diffs between PSC 1300 and PSC 1310 I see that the 1310
has a reference to PSC 1200 series.

...
32c32
< *Product:     "(psc 1300 series)"
---
> *Product:     "(psc 1200 series)"
...
57c57
<   MDL:psc 1300 series;
---
>   MDL:psc 1200 series;

Furthermore I noticed that the linuxprinting page about PSC1310 suggests
that hpijs 1.3 or higher is enough to get it going. That is not correct.
On SUSE9.1 the hpijs is 1.4.1 (part of ghostscript-library package), and
that one does not have support for deskjet 3600 (as required by the
1310 ppd).

FWIW. I've created a modified ghostscript-library RPM which includes
hpijs 1.7.1, and also a hplip 0.8.4 rpm without /usr/bin/hpijs. The latter
was needed because of a rpm conflict between these two.

It made me realize that the SUSE packaging (at least until 9.1) comes
with a pretty complex maintenance as far as the hpijs is concerned. With
the introduction of hplip there are now at least three packages involved.
* cups-drivers (includes the PPDs from linuxprinting.org)
* ghostscript-library (includes the hpijs binary and the readme.html)
* hplip (source includes the latest version of hpijs, and PPDs)

How can this be maintained properly? I wish SUSE a lot of wisdom :-)

Kind regards, Kees Bakker

PS. What is considered the actual SOURCE of the PPDs from HP? Is the
hplip tar file taking the lead these days? Or is it linuxprinting.org
somewhere?