Bug#912765: hplip: hp-doctor broken

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

severity 912765 normal
thanks



On Sat 03 Nov 2018 at 19:02:37 +0100, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:

> Package: hplip
> Version: 3.18.10+dfsg0-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> $ hp-doctor
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/hp-doctor", line 42, in <module>
>     check_extension_module_env('cupsext')
>   File "/usr/share/hplip/base/g.py", line 339, in check_extension_module_env
>     python_ver = xint((sys.version).split(' ')[0])              #find the current python version ; xint() to convert string to int, returns a list
>   File "/usr/share/hplip/base/g.py", line 331, in xint
>     return l
> UnboundLocalError: local variable 'l' referenced before assignment

Thank you for your bug report, Cristian, but your severity level is much
too high. hp-doctor is only a diagnostic utility. I expect printer and
scanner setup are ok. Please contact upstream
at

https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip

to get an opinion on this aspect of their code.

Regards,

Brian.