Since there was no apparent maintainer response (the only responses were from me and from one of the people working on the time64 transition) I went ahead and uploaded a NMU'd with Ubuntu's fix.
Debdiff is attatched.
diff -Nru system-config-printer-1.5.18/debian/changelog system-config-printer-1.5.18/debian/changelog --- system-config-printer-1.5.18/debian/changelog 2022-12-12 21:04:11.000000000 +0000 +++ system-config-printer-1.5.18/debian/changelog 2024-04-12 23:24:56.000000000 +0000 @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +system-config-printer (1.5.18-1.1) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Fix installation of cupshelpers module with Python 3.12. Patch taken from + Ubuntu 1.5.18-1ubuntu6 upload by Till Kamppeter (Closes: #1054795). + + -- Peter Michael Green <plugw...@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2024 23:24:56 +0000 + system-config-printer (1.5.18-1) unstable; urgency=medium [ Jeremy Bicha ] diff -Nru system-config-printer-1.5.18/debian/patches/makefile-am-fix-setup-py-install.patch system-config-printer-1.5.18/debian/patches/makefile-am-fix-setup-py-install.patch --- system-config-printer-1.5.18/debian/patches/makefile-am-fix-setup-py-install.patch 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000 +++ system-config-printer-1.5.18/debian/patches/makefile-am-fix-setup-py-install.patch 2024-04-12 23:03:53.000000000 +0000 @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +--- a/Makefile.am ++++ b/Makefile.am +@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ + + # Use distutils to install the module. + install-exec-local: .stamp-distutils-in-builddir +- $(PYTHON) setup.py install --prefix=$(DESTDIR)$(prefix) ++ $(PYTHON) setup.py install --root=$(DESTDIR) --prefix=$(prefix) --install-layout=deb + + # Uninstall the module, crossing our fingers that we know enough + # about how distutils works to do this. Unfortunately, distutils diff -Nru system-config-printer-1.5.18/debian/patches/series system-config-printer-1.5.18/debian/patches/series --- system-config-printer-1.5.18/debian/patches/series 2022-12-12 21:04:11.000000000 +0000 +++ system-config-printer-1.5.18/debian/patches/series 2024-04-12 23:05:12.000000000 +0000 @@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ Allow-installing-packages-from-OpenPrinting.patch Do-not-autostart-the-applet-on-LXDE-or-Unity.patch Show-Printer-Settings-in-Unity-Control-Center.patch +makefile-am-fix-setup-py-install.patch diff -Nru system-config-printer-1.5.18/debian/python3-cupshelpers.install system-config-printer-1.5.18/debian/python3-cupshelpers.install --- system-config-printer-1.5.18/debian/python3-cupshelpers.install 2022-12-12 21:04:11.000000000 +0000 +++ system-config-printer-1.5.18/debian/python3-cupshelpers.install 2024-04-12 23:03:53.000000000 +0000 @@ -1,5 +1,4 @@ etc/cupshelpers/ -usr/lib/python3*/*-packages/cupshelpers -usr/lib/python3*/*-packages/cupshelpers-1.0*.egg-info +usr/lib/python3*/*-packages/cupshelpers* debug.py usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cupshelpers/ smburi.py usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cupshelpers/
