On Mon, 5 Nov 2018, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Sun 04 Nov 2018 at 23:21:14 +0000, Brian Potkin wrote: > > > avahi-deamon is essential; there were no instructions to uninstall it. > > Without it you will be unable to detect the DNS-SD broadcasts of the > > printer/scanner device. Put it back. > > Please forget about this, it is nonsense.
Right. I'll say that much. I don't intend to follow the avahi track. I just wish the bugs are fixed in 3.18.10+dfsg0-1, specially when patches are readily available. Just like other distributions (ubuntu, mint, arch, fedora, and so on do already) do. So, please patch. The little I digged in upstream bug DB, reported bugs (those that concern me) seem to be buried, although solutions exist :( 3.17.10+repack0-5 (in testing) is working for me as expected (with a minimally patched models.dat). The downgraded to 3.17.10+repack0-5 in unstable (with the same patch) is also usable, but not working as well. I see this kind of messages in the syslog (in unstable): hp-toolbox(UI)[1127]: warning: Supplies information not available for this device. /hpfax: [1292]: error: Failed to create/var/spool/cups/tmp/.hplip xpraforwarder: '/usr/lib/cups/backend/xpraforwarder' python3: io/hpmud/hpmud.c 246: invalid channel_open state, current io_mode=raw/uni service=HP-MESSAGE hp:/net/HP_ColorLaserJet_MFP_M278-M281?ip=192.168.x.y hpcups[3963]: prnt/hpcups/Hbpl1.cpp 52: Hbpl1 constructor : m_szLanguage = HBPL1 hp[7978]: prnt/backend/hp.c 919: ERROR: null print job total=0 and others. The hplip* packages are highly rated in popcon (~40%). So, that shows the importance of stabilizing the hplip* packages. -- cii
