Bug#946804: plugin download fails (broken keyserver, assumes Python 2)
On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 08:01:34AM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> That's really unfortunate indeed; and something I fixed in 3.19.8+dfsg0-2
> through installing and using the PGP public key directly in the package.
OK.
> That's an upstream-provided "binary artifact"; which should be fixed by them.
I guess yes and no. You could very well argue that this isn't a bug in hplip
in the context of the Debian BTS. On the other hand, making this plugin work
is indeed one fairly important feature of hplip, and it wouldn't be
impossible for hplip to work around it (e.g. by patching the installer prior
to running it).
> hplip is a mess; and more so in stable; and I'm sorry for this (on upstream's
> behalf I guess).
>
> That said, I wonder if you could make reasonable use of your HP printer
> through driverless: https://wiki.debian.org/DriverlessPrinting
>
> For "normal" printing, it might very well be that you don't _actually_ need
> hplip.
It might be; I certainly needed a few years back (for whatever reason, I
couldn't just send PostScript to it and make it stick), but times may have
changed.
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