Re: IPP-over-USB
On Tue 25 Sep 2018 at 11:27:32 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:
> On Mon 24 Sep 2018 at 21:38:47 +0200, Till Kamppeter wrote:
>
> > On 24/09/18 20:53, Brian Potkin wrote:
> > > An addition to the wiki:
> > >
> > > https://wiki.debian.org/DriverlessPrinting#IPP-over-USB
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Brian.
> > >
> >
> > Note that the dummy0 is not the recommended method here. I was my first
> > approach to work around the shortcomings of Avahi.
> >
> > The recommended method is to patch Avahi as described in README.md. This way
> > no new network interface needs to get introduced, no service being started
> > for it on boot, and, most important, printers appear on localhost as the
> > standard for IPP-over-USB requires it.
> >
> > The patch for Avahi I have submitted upstream already long ago but it was
> > simply not accepted due to the fact that Avahi's maintainer has disappeared
> > and so Avahi is currently completely unmaintained (Volunteers, please!!!).
> > At Ubuntu we carry this patch as a distro patch already for a year or so,
> > without any problems and with IPP-over-USB printers working either with the
> > systemd service which comes with ippusbxd or with the systemd service of
> > system-config-printer-udev.
> >
> > It would be great if you could do the same implementation in Debian.
>
> FTR in this thread; I submitted #909564:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=909564
I also documented your advice at
https://wiki.debian.org/DriverlessPrinting#IPP-over-USB_.28Short_version.29
https://wiki.debian.org/DriverlessPrinting#IPP-over-USB
--
Brian.
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