I would greet this kind of Bionic SRU with both my hands but I doubt very much Ubuntu would agree to do it this way.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to hplip in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1903693 Title: Fails to download scanner plugin via hp-plugin Status in hplip package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I'm trying to install the plugin to get my scanner of the multi function printer HP M182n working on 18.04, which I am currently still using on my machine and it fails to download the plugin. Looking at https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/plugins I see that it is likely that the file hplip-3.17.10-plugin.run has been removed from the server. There is a newer one, hplip-3.17.11-plugin.run but it's getting more and more messy trying to make this minor version number bump in the plugin work with the version in Ubuntu and the upstream software quality is terrible too. I started replacing version numbers and hashes in the bash makeself run files, but it fails again. This time with: Uncompressing HPLIP 3.17.10 Plugin Self Extracting Archive.... gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated .Extraction failed. Terminated error: Python gobject/dbus may be not installed From my point of view, no average user should have to suffer through this. I guess Ubuntu/Debian and HP don't talk to each other to support each other in delivering a pain free user experience. Can you please look into this and maybe release the .11 version of point me to a release to test for the users who are still on a still good 18.04 LTS? Here is my initial attempt: $ hp-plugin HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.17.10) Plugin Download and Install Utility ver. 2.1 Copyright (c) 2001-15 HP Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details. HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.17.10) Plugin Download and Install Utility ver. 2.1 Copyright (c) 2001-15 HP Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details. qt5ct: using qt5ct plugin Checking for network connection... Downloading plug-in from: None Receiving digital keys: /usr/bin/gpg --homedir /home/livewire/.hplip/.gnupg --no-permission-warning --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x4ABA2F66DBD5A95894910E0673D770CDA59047B9 |Getötet To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hplip/+bug/1903693/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
