Bug#859621: printer-driver-gutenprint: Regression in 5.2.11 for Brother printer

[Olivier Aubert <contact@olivieraubert.net>]

Package: printer-driver-gutenprint
Version: 5.2.11-1+b2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I own a Brother MFC7420 printer (which requires proprietary drivers that use gutenprint).
It has been working correctly with printer-driver-gutenprint 5.2.10. Since the upgrade to 
5.2.11-1+b1 (and idem with 5.2.11-1+b2), the printer stopped working, with the following
message in /var/log/cups/error.log:

[cups-deviced] PID 27449 (gutenprint52+usb) stopped with status 1!

Similar issues can be found in Ubuntu [1] and ArchLinux [2].

I solved it for the moment by downgrading printer-driver-gutenprint to 5.2.10

[1] https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/printer-pauses-randomly-after-upgrade-to-16-04/5653
[2] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=208475

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages printer-driver-gutenprint depends on:
ii  cups                             2.2.1-8
ii  cups-client                      2.2.1-8
ii  cups-filters [ghostscript-cups]  1.11.6-3
ii  libc6                            2.24-9
ii  libcups2                         2.2.1-8
ii  libcupsimage2                    2.2.1-8
pn  libgutenprint2                   <none>
ii  libusb-1.0-0                     2:1.0.21-1

printer-driver-gutenprint recommends no packages.

Versions of packages printer-driver-gutenprint suggests:
pn  gutenprint-doc      <none>
pn  gutenprint-locales  <none>

-- no debconf information