Luca Capello wrote: > Hi there! > > On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:58:50 +0100, ilf wrote: >>> The firmware for some hp printers is not loaded when the device is >>> plugged >> Since work on the package seems to be stalled since Version >> 20070718dfsg-8, > > This is not true: I already worked on the new version around two weeks > ago [1], but then I had stopped because of real life work (and other Debian > stuff) and I have already planned to finish this week :-) > > FWIW, a new *unofficial* package is already available for people to be > tested (see bug #466758 [2]) and I am adapting all the quick changes I > did in that package to the official one. > >> I dug into the upstream changelog, finding the relevant change at [1]: >> >> | 2007-11-10 Rick Richardson <[email protected]> >> | * Modify: hplj10xx.rules to put -%n in the symlink field >> >> So for a quick workaround with the package, edit >> >> /etc/udev/rules.d/11-hplj10xx.rules >> changing >> SYSFS{product}=="HP LaserJet -> to -> SYSFS{product}=="hp LaserJet >> and >> SYMLINK+="hplj1000%e", -> to -> SYMLINK+="hplj1000n%n", > ^ > The above should be -> SYMLINK+="hplj1000-%n" . > >> A new package with updated upstream sure would be nice, especially since >> this Bug is also present in the Lenny package 20070718dfsg-7.1, which >> uses the same (old) upstream. > > This is probably the major problem: the lenny version is outdated and it > does not work with some printers [3]. OTOH, I am not really sure if at > this point of the release process a new upstream version will be ever > accepted into lenny. I cc:ed the d-release mailing list to know how to > proceed here: porting the fix to the outdated package or updating the > new version, asking for a lenny exception.
A smaller diff would be appreciated. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
