Bug 20707

Summary: HPsendfax menu entry does nothing
Product: Mageia Reporter: Lewis Smith <lewyssmith>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: All Packagers <pkg-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: mageia, marja11
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Source RPM: hplip CVE:
Status comment:

Description Lewis Smith 2017-04-20 06:53:16 CEST
Description of problem:
For Gnome & Plasma M6 Live ISOs to date, there is a menu entry for HPsendfax which does nothing. Because the package is not present. So either the package should be installed, or the menu entry for it removed.

Not applicable to LXDE Live nor Classic ISOs (pkg not present).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
M6 RC to date, Gnome & Plasma Live ISOs.
Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2017-04-20 09:39:46 CEST
(In reply to Lewis Smith from comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> For Gnome & Plasma M6 Live ISOs to date, there is a menu entry for HPsendfax
> which does nothing. Because the package is not present. So either the
> package should be installed, or the menu entry for it removed.
> 
> Not applicable to LXDE Live nor Classic ISOs (pkg not present).

Guessing that's the hplip package, please correct me if I'm wrong
> 
> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
> M6 RC to date, Gnome & Plasma Live ISOs.

Assigning to all packagers collectively, since there is no registered maintainer for hplip

Source RPM: (none) => hplip
Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs
CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 2 Martin Whitaker 2017-04-30 00:08:54 CEST
I agree the menu entry appears to do nothing, but I don't agree that there is a missing package. Running 'hp-sendfax' from a terminal results in

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.16.11)
PC Sendfax Utility ver. 9.0

Copyright (c) 2001-15 HP Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

error: No device found that support this feature.

It would be nice if it gave you a visible message when you started it from the menu entry, but sadly it doesn't.

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 3 Lewis Smith 2017-04-30 10:26:00 CEST
What a difference a '-' makes! hp-sendfax, not hpsendfax.

Accepting Martin's explanation, and that you would normally try this thing without having FAX configured, I am closing this.

Resolution: (none) => INVALID
Status: NEW => RESOLVED