David Zeuthen wrote:
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 21:18 -0600, Bernard Johnson wrote:
> David Zeuthen wrote:
>>> Where are your bug reports to them? Your feature requests? Have you
>>> even interacted with the hplip guys before?
>> No, I'm not the hplip package owner in any distribution and I just came
>> across this when looking at doing the ACL support things in HAL for
>> SANE. I'll probably try to talk to them, I was just shocked we actually
>> ship these bits.
> I expect you will be pleased with their openness and responsiveness to
> making things right. Which is exactly why I queried if you had
> expressed your concerns to them.
Good to hear. I'm still not the hplip package maintainer though.
Well, I'm not either :) But I've had *some* interaction with them. I
only mention this because, by your own admission, you will likely end up
in the same boat.
You might be interested in this thread:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.printing.hplip.devel/353
where David Suffield says "... we have learned a lot since we have
started the HPLIP project and we have learned what is useful and what is
not, so we are looking into the possibility of a daemon-less version of
HPLIP."
If you feel strongly about the way that hplip /should/ work, I urge you
to contact them with your views.