On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 13:37 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Bob Taylor wrote: > > My wife purchased an HP Deskjet F340 all-in-one printer last year. > > CentOS 5 includes hplip-1.6.7. I need at least hplip-2.7.10 which I have > > had to install via tarball. Is there any plans to update this package > > soon? > > Our goal is to be 100% directly compatible with the upstream EL > software. So, the short answer is ... I have no idea when or if they > will put that in a current product. > > If you want to know what MIGHT be in CentOS-6 (still probably 6-8 months > away) you can look in Fedora 9. The version there (in what is called > Rawhide) is currently hplip-2.7.12-5.fc9.src.rpm: Sorry Johnny, I was not specific. What I left off was if the developers were aware of Red Hat's plans. I just presumed they had *some* inkling. This is *one* package that *should* be updated fairly continuously for new printers. Perhaps the current maintainers wouldn't mind? -- Bob Taylor