Bug#953104: hplip: After upgrade to version 3.20.2 of hplip, nothing can be printed
On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 03:36:30PM +0000, Brad Rogers wrote:
> Package: hplip
> Version: 3.19.12+dfsg0-4
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> Running Debian Testing.
>
> After upgrading to v3.20.2 of hplip, my system could no longer print anything.
> Print jobs were being sent
> to the printer (display panel illuminated to indicate something was
> communicating with the printer) but
> would never complete, and jobs eventually timed out with a communication error.
>
> Downgrading to version 3.19.12 of hplip has allowed me to continue printing
> again.
> The printer is an HP OfficeJet 6700 Premium (an all-in-one-device)
>
> It has been pointed out to me on the Debian User mailing list, that there was a
> recent change in CUPS;
>
> >> cups (2.3.1-5) unstable; urgency=medium
> >>
> >> * Move towards driverless-centered installation:
> >> - Drop all printer-driver-* and hplip recommends/suggests
> >> * Cleanup all versions from pre- Debian stable
> >> * Bump S-V to 4.5.0 without changes needed
> >>
>
> which may have some impact on hplip and its interaction with CUPS.
>
> Summary of hp-check runs;
>
> The installed version (3.19.12) hp-check report concludes thus;
>
> Missing Required Dependencies
> -----------------------------
> error: 'cups' package is missing or 'cups' service is not running.
> error: 'libcups2' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'libjpeg62-turbo-dev' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'libcups2-dev' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'cups-bsd' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'cups-client' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'libcupsimage2' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'libcupsimage2-dev' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'libusb-1.0.0-dev' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'libsane-dev' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'libsnmp-dev' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'snmp' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'python3-pyqt4' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'gtk2-engines-pixbuf' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'libtool' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'libtool-bin' package is missing/incompatible
>
> Missing Optional Dependencies
> -----------------------------
> error: 'avahi-utils' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'python3-notify2' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'python3-dbus.mainloop.qt' package is missing/incompatible
>
> and from 3.20.0;
>
> Missing Required Dependencies
> -----------------------------
> error: 'cups' package is missing or 'cups' service is not running.
> error: 'libcups2' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'libjpeg62-turbo-dev' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'libcups2-dev' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'cups-bsd' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'cups-client' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'libcupsimage2' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'libcupsimage2-dev' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'libusb-1.0.0-dev' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'libsane-dev' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'libsnmp-dev' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'snmp' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'python3-pyqt4' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'gtk2-engines-pixbuf' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'libtool' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'libtool-bin' package is missing/incompatible
>
> Missing Optional Dependencies
> -----------------------------
> error: 'avahi-utils' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'python3-notify2' package is missing/incompatible
> error: 'python3-dbus.mainloop.qt' package is missing/incompatible
>
> CUPS is installed and running, and cups-bsd and cups-client are both installed.
> Installing other packages mentioned did nothing to improve the situation.
>
>
>
> -- Package-specific info:
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: bullseye/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
> Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
> Versions of packages hplip depends on:
> ii adduser 3.118
> ii cups 2.3.1-7
> ii hplip-data 3.19.12+dfsg0-4
> ii libc6 2.29-10
> ii libcups2 2.3.1-7
> ii libdbus-1-3 1.12.16-2
> ii libhpmud0 3.19.12+dfsg0-4
> ii libpython3.7 3.7.6-1+b1
> ii libsane 1.0.27-3.2+b1
> ii libsane-hpaio 3.19.12+dfsg0-4
> ii lsb-base 11.1.0
> ii printer-driver-hpcups 3.19.12+dfsg0-4
> ii python3 3.7.5-3
> ii python3-dbus 1.2.16-1
> ii python3-gi 3.34.0-6
> ii python3-pexpect 4.6.0-1
> ii python3-pil 6.2.1-2+b1
> ii python3-reportlab 3.5.34-1
> ii wget 1.20.3-1+b2
> ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1+b1
>
> Versions of packages hplip recommends:
> ii avahi-daemon 0.7-5
> ii policykit-1 0.105-26
> pn printer-driver-postscript-hp <none>
> ii sane-utils 1.0.27-3.2+b1
>
> Versions of packages hplip suggests:
> pn hplip-doc <none>
> ii hplip-gui 3.19.12+dfsg0-4
> pn python3-notify2 <none>
> pn system-config-printer <none>
>
> -- no debconf information
>
Reply to: