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Author: Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [Dng] recommendation for consideration: keep as close to debian as possible
Am Samstag, 14. Februar 2015 schrieb Luke Leighton:
> to support the purchase of a new (recent) printer which requires hplip
> 3.16 for example i had to compile hplip *from source code* because
> TDE *even with latest packages* forces hplip 3.12 *not* 3.16.


Sorry, this statement is not true: TDE does not force hplip 3.12. In fact if you look at the debian package database there is no hplip 3.16:

Package hplip
    squeeze (oldstable) (utils): HP Linux Printing and Imaging System (HPLIP)
    3.10.6-2+squeeze2: amd64 armel i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
    wheezy (stable) (utils): HP Linux Printing and Imaging System (HPLIP)
    3.12.6-3.1+deb7u1: amd64 armel armhf i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 s390x sparc
    jessie (testing) (utils): HP Linux Printing and Imaging System (HPLIP)
    3.14.6-1+b2: amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc ppc64el s390x
    sid (unstable) (utils): HP Linux Printing and Imaging System (HPLIP)
    3.14.6-1+b2: amd64 arm64 armel armhf hurd-i386 i386 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc ppc64 ppc64el s390x sparc
    3.14.6-1+b1 [debports]: alpha
    3.14.6-1 [debports]: hppa powerpcspe x32
    3.13.11-2 [debports]: m68k
    3.13.4-1 [debports]: sh4
    3.11.12-2 [debports]: sparc64


On my wheezy with TDE I can do "aptitude dist-upgrade" without breaking the system, and I have TDE R14 and deb-multimedia, too.

Nik


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