[Bug 32302] Re: Duplicate printers listed when adding HP printer

[Pascal De Vuyst]

Ante wrote:
> In Edgy, detected HP printer apears only once. This is cause of
> newer HPLIP in Edgy.

In Edgy it appears that the cups usb backend is not working anymore,
resulting in only one printer entry in gnome-cups-manager from the hplip
backend.

Running the following command gives no output:
$ /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb

I seriously doubt this is caused by the newer HPLIP in Edgy, this looks more like a bug in cupsys.
In attachment you find the output of command lpinfo -v which shows that CUPS only detects my printer with the hp backend on Edgy, the usb backend is not present. Perhaps this is a temporarly breakage since Edgy is still in heavy development.
How can people with non HP printers configure their usb printers on Edgy?
Therefore I think the 2 detected printer entries in gnome-cups-manager are necessary, but a user should be able to see a clear difference between similar entries and if a printer that works with the hplip backend is detected it should prefer this entry by selecting it by default.

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Duplicate printers listed when adding HP printer
https://launchpad.net/bugs/32302