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

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

On Wed 05 Apr 2017 at 15:04:53 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:

> On Wed 05 Apr 2017 at 12:13:56 +0200, Olivier Aubert wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> Intriguing. The MFC7420 is not supported by Gutenprint! Where do the
> Brother drivers enter the picture?

To make it clear - there are two questions here. One is explicit.
The other (is the MFC7420 supported by Gutenprint?) is implicit.

Regards,

Brian.