The hp linux printing and imaging system provides full support for printing on most hp sfp (single function peripheral) inkjets and many laserjets, and for scanning, sending faxes and for photo-card access on most hp mfp (multi-function peripheral) printers.

this package contains debugging symbolic information for all the binaries and libraries in the hplip and hpijs packages.

it is useful for generating backtraces using debuggers like gdb and to get better information from tools like ltrace.