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Bug#904257: [printer-driver-escpr] Missing drivers for "Expression Premium XP-6000"



Control: reassign -1 wnpp
Control: retitle -1 ITP: epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2 - Epson Printer Driver ESC/P-R Driver 2
Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: owner -1 !
Control: affects -1 src:printer-driver-escpr

Hi Robert,

Le dimanche, 22 juillet 2018, 13.09:39 h CEST Robert Braumann a écrit :
> got an "EPSON Expression Premium XP-6000", but unfortunately there are no
> drivers for it in "printer-driver-escpr". Please add the driver for the
> "XP-6000" to the package.

According to Epson's download center [0], the XP-6000 series printers
need the printer-driver-escpr2 driver, which is a new package that needs
to be prepared and uploaded:

  Package name    : epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2
  Version         : 1.0.18
  Upstream Author : Seiko Epson Corporation
  URL             : http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/searchModule
  License         : LGPL2.1 + EPSON restrictions
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : Epson Inkjet Printer Driver 2 (ESC/P-R)

This would be maintained under the Debian Printing Team umbrella.

That said, given this COPYING.EPSON at the root of the tarball, I'm afraid
it might be non-free. It might not even be redistributable:

In particular:
> This software includes source codes which are distributed under GNU Lesser General
> Public License v2.1 (COPYING.LIB). This software also includes objects codes 
> which are distributed under the conditions of 
> SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT(COPYING.EPSON). 

and:
> 2. Other Rights and Limitations. You agree not to modify, adapt or 
> translate the Software. You also agree not to attempt to reverse 
> engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to discover the 
> source code of the Software

Indeed, the tarball contains escprlib/lib/libescpr2*.a

I'll check if these can be recompiled, but I really doubt it.

You will have to download the .deb for yourself I'm afraid.

Cheers,
    OdyX
[0] http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/searchModule


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