Re: New HPLIP release 3.20.6 doesn't require plugin for printers whose needed plugin in the past

2020-06-17 Thread Zdenek Dohnal
On 6/17/20 11:03 AM, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: > > Zdenek have kind of question: why there are so many patches in the > hplip package? > Is it any problem with accepting Fedora patches by source tree maintainer? Yes, it is - HP upstream is unresponsive in most bugfix cases. > Is there any git or other

Re: New HPLIP release 3.20.6 doesn't require plugin for printers whose needed plugin in the past

2020-06-17 Thread Tomasz Kłoczko
On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 14:09, Zdenek Dohnal wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm HPLIP maintainer in Fedora and I would like to ask *the users which > have HP printers which needed their HP plugin to test the scratch build* > of new hplip. > > HPLIP released a new version 3.20.6, where most models, which

Re: New HPLIP release 3.20.6 doesn't require plugin for printers whose needed plugin in the past

2020-06-17 Thread Zdenek Dohnal
Hi Tomasz, thank you for testing! Unfortunately, IMO hpcups still loads the plugin... I checked the code and hpcups doesn't look into models.dat - it loads the plugin either way, entry in models.dat seems to be checked only during print queue installation :( . I have the same experience with

Re: New HPLIP release 3.20.6 doesn't require plugin for printers whose needed plugin in the past

2020-06-16 Thread Zdenek Dohnal
On 6/16/20 11:28 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Zdenek Dohnal wrote: >> Do you mean GPL as a license? > Yes. By "the GPL driver", I mean the driver itself, which is under the GPL > and/or compatible licenses, as opposed to the proprietary plugin. Oh, sorry - when I read driver, I usually come up with

Re: New HPLIP release 3.20.6 doesn't require plugin for printers whose needed plugin in the past

2020-06-16 Thread Kevin Kofler
Zdenek Dohnal wrote: > Do you mean GPL as a license? Yes. By "the GPL driver", I mean the driver itself, which is under the GPL and/or compatible licenses, as opposed to the proprietary plugin. > Either way, HP upstream makes new releases, but with not so much/any new > features or bugfixes.

Re: New HPLIP release 3.20.6 doesn't require plugin for printers whose needed plugin in the past

2020-06-16 Thread Zdenek Dohnal
Oh, so the link in downloading script needs to be fixed too. Thank you for the link! On 6/16/20 3:35 PM, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 03:23:10PM +0200, Zdenek Dohnal wrote: >> And please don't try to reinstall plugin. It seems they haven't built a >> new one yet or they aren't

Re: New HPLIP release 3.20.6 doesn't require plugin for printers whose needed plugin in the past

2020-06-16 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 03:23:10PM +0200, Zdenek Dohnal wrote: > And please don't try to reinstall plugin. It seems they haven't built a > new one yet or they aren't planning to. > > See http://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/auxfiles/HP/plugins/ Here it is:

Re: New HPLIP release 3.20.6 doesn't require plugin for printers whose needed plugin in the past

2020-06-16 Thread Zdenek Dohnal
On 6/16/20 3:21 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Zdenek Dohnal wrote: >> HPLIP released a new version 3.20.6, where most models, which previously >> required HP plugin, were set to do not require plugin anymore. >> >> Although requirement of HP plugin was questionable with some printer >> models, other

Re: New HPLIP release 3.20.6 doesn't require plugin for printers whose needed plugin in the past

2020-06-16 Thread Kevin Kofler
Zdenek Dohnal wrote: > HPLIP released a new version 3.20.6, where most models, which previously > required HP plugin, were set to do not require plugin anymore. > > Although requirement of HP plugin was questionable with some printer > models, other models may really needed it and they will not

Re: New HPLIP release 3.20.6 doesn't require plugin for printers whose needed plugin in the past

2020-06-16 Thread Zdenek Dohnal
And please don't try to reinstall plugin. It seems they haven't built a new one yet or they aren't planning to. See http://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/auxfiles/HP/plugins/ On 6/16/20 3:01 PM, Zdenek Dohnal wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm HPLIP maintainer in Fedora and I would like to

Re: New HPLIP release 3.20.6 doesn't require plugin for printers whose needed plugin in the past

2020-06-16 Thread Zdenek Dohnal
There isn't a sucg list, but basically you can check git log at https://github.com/zdohnal/hplip . On 6/16/20 3:14 PM, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 03:01:22PM +0200, Zdenek Dohnal wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm HPLIP maintainer in Fedora and I would like to ask *the users which >>

Re: New HPLIP release 3.20.6 doesn't require plugin for printers whose needed plugin in the past

2020-06-16 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 03:01:22PM +0200, Zdenek Dohnal wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm HPLIP maintainer in Fedora and I would like to ask *the users which > have HP printers which needed their HP plugin to test the scratch build* > of new hplip. > > HPLIP released a new version 3.20.6, where most