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ipp-usb Packaging some more remarks



[ CCed debian-printing and Alexander Pevzner ]

Hi,

I have worked a lot with Alexander Pevzner on making ipp-usb what it is now and I also have succeeded to get localhost support into Avahi.

Most was already told in the initial report, but I have some additional remarks:

- IPP-over-USB is a very important standard to allow printing and scanning without hardware-model-specific drivers when the device is connected via USB. There is no way for driverless USB access to such devices without using IPP-over-USB, Practically all modern printer/scanner-multi-function devices support driverless IPP operation including IPP-over-USB. This way we get thousands of printers and scanners (and even sending fax) working, without needing to develop drivers. ipp-usb is currently the only way to get this working reliably.

- The upstream source repository https://github.com/OpenPrinting/ipp-usb (Note: it has moved to OpenPrinting) contains also the debian packaging in its debian/ subdiectory, so packaging for Debian probably needs only some simple corrections. The work load needed is very low. Also maintaining would be easy as Alexander would probably help.

- I also want to introduce ipp-usb in Ubuntu, in 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) which has Feature Freeze Aug 27. It would be great if I could sync from Debian.

No one interested? OdyX, could you package/upload it?

   Till


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