Bug#692464: hplip-gui: hp-toolbox fails to start

[Olivier Berger <oberger@ouvaton.org>]

tags 692464 + patch
thanks

Hi.

"Didier 'OdyX' Raboud" <odyx@debian.org> writes:
>
> Hi Olivier,
>
> the upstream bug you pointed claims it got fixed by the 3.12.10a version, 
> currently in experimental. (Hence hereby marking it as fixed by that version).
>
> Could you maybe try it and see if it is effectively fixed ?
>

I guess it would, even though I just tried and replacing the code of the
faulty function by the one from 3.12.10a (see attached patch).

I guess that the patch could be applied to the current version, as an
alternative to waiting for the latest upstream to propagate.

AFAIU, in the current 3.12.6-3, if one removes ~/.hplip, the first execution of hp-toolbox will
succeed (and write a latest_available_version = 3.12.10a Public
Release... in ~/.hplip/hplip.conf), but the next execution will then
fail.

I'm tempted to raising the severity to important. Until upstream's
current version changes to a pure digit-based version, users may
experience the same problem :-/

What do you think ?

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
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