Hello Alex, and thanks for your bugreport, Thankfully, now with driverless printing [0] and sane-airscan [1], printers such as yours shouldn't need hplip anymore. (Also, hplip's code quality isn't monotonously upwards, so printing without hplip is often a preferable option). That said, the situation in sid and bullseye (current testing) is likely much better in these respects than in buster. Could you maybe test driverless printing, and/or sane-airscan?
As for the backporting; thank you for the patch removal proposals. As I've
just uploaded 3.20.9+dfsg0-3 to unstable; it should migrate to testing in
about 5-10 days, so , if your testing isn't successful, I'll prepare a 3.20.9
backport. I'm testing a build as I write this.
Please report the results of your tests if you have the occasion.
Best regards, and thanks for your work!
Cheers,
OdyX
[0] https://wiki.debian.org/DriverlessPrinting
[1] https://github.com/alexpevzner/sane-airscan
Le lundi, 12 octobre 2020, 15.10:35 h CEST Alex ARNAUD a écrit :
> Package: hplip
> Severity: wishlist patch
> Tags: ||buster||
>
> Hello,
>
> Why I'd like this to be backported to buster-backports ?
> My new printer, an HP 2700 series is only compatible with HP Lip
> 3.20.5+. This is based on my own tests where only half of printed pages
> are printed. This is also based on the upstream table
> <https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/supported_devices/i
> ndex> where it is indicated the "HP DeskJet 2700 All-in-One Printer series"
> is compatible with 3.20.5.
>
> What did I already do to figure this out?
> With the help of Samuel Thibault, I was able to recompile HP Lip 3.20.5
> on a Buster virtual machine and I produced two patch for it. The patches
> are attached to this mail. One is to update the debian/patches/series
> file and the second one is to refresh the patch 0072 (just a quilt
> refresh on it). I initially would like to propose a pull request on
> Salsa but there is no branch to submit the changes.
>
> What my patch does?
> It reverts all the python3.8 specific patches because Debian Buster is
> based on Python 3.7 and because python3.7 library is named "python3.7m",
> not only python3.7.
>
> What I think HP Lip should be backported to buster-backports?
> I think it'd be really helpful for people would like to stay on stable
> with new HP printers which require new HP Lip to have a new version in
> backports.
>
> How do I check if it works?
>
> 1. I upgraded the compiled packages with the following command:
> > sudo dpkg -iO .../*.deb
>
> 2) I rebooted my virtual machine to ensure the new HP Lip version is loaded
>
> 3) I configured my HP Desktop 3630 printer (launched with
> system-config-printer)
>
> 4) I tried a print test job launched with system-config-printer
>
> 5) I tried a scan with simple-scan
>
> Result:
> Everything seems to work correctly.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Alex.
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OdyX
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