Bug#681851: escputil: requires module usblp which is blacklisted by CUPS

[Christian Weikusat <christian@shamanbenefit.net>]

Package: escputil
Version: 5.2.8-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

to obtain ink levels from my USB printer (EPSON Stylus Photo P50) escputil needs access to the device /dev/usb/lp0 which is created by the module usblp, but this module is blacklisted by CUPS

I tried using the raw device /dev/bus/usb/005/003 but it doesn't work either:

"Kann nicht auf /dev/bus/usb/005/003 schreiben: Das Argument ist ungültig"
("Cannot write to /dev/bus/usb/005/003 : The argument is invalid")

After manually loading the module usblp escputil works fine, also CUPS still seems to be working.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages escputil depends on:
ii  libc6           2.13-33
ii  libgutenprint2  5.2.8-1
ii  libreadline6    6.2-8
ii  libtinfo5       5.9-10

escputil recommends no packages.

Versions of packages escputil suggests:
ii  gutenprint-locales  5.2.8-1

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