[Bug 24999] repeated printer drivers on HPLIP

[Pascal De Vuyst]

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

Comment:
Rocco Stanzione wrote:
> I'd prefer to see the ppds consolidated into a single package. Having recently installed an HP driver that required hplip drivers, it's not a very straightforward process to figure out which package I need.

I don't see any reason for this since both packages foomatic-filters-ppds and hplip-ppds are installed by default in Ubuntu. You don't need to figure it out.
These are separate packages because they come from different upstream projects and are maintained by different Debian maintainers.

Rocco Stanzione wrote:
> The CUPS web interface also suffers from the problem of separate HP/HP (HPLIP) "makes", which confuses administration as well. I recall a similar issue in Windows where the add printer dialog had both HP and Hewlett Packard listed as manufacturers.

As mentioned to Martin Pool this is a seperate bug. You can use the same
simple fix as https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/hplip-
ppds/+bug/34987 to solve this.