Bug#1001440: /usr/bin/foo2zjs: fails to load firmware into printer

[David Heidelberg <david@ixit.cz>]

Package: printer-driver-foo2zjs
Version: 20200505dfsg0-2
Severity: important
File: /usr/bin/foo2zjs

Dear Maintainer,

After connecting printer (HP 1018), firmware isn't loaded into printer, even after getting by getweb 1018.

Seems like script /lib/udev/hplj1000 and symlinks (as hplj1018) give up on uploading firmware into device.

I managed to succeed by disabling udev rule triggering this script and manually running

# cat /lib/firmware/hp/sihp1018.dl > /dev/usb/lp3

which does upload 1018 firmware into USB printer connected to lp3 (visible in dmesg).

I think this is partly inconsistency between Debian udev rules and upstream firmware upload script quality (and age).

I'll try figure out patch, but not promising it'll be soon.

David

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (10, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages printer-driver-foo2zjs depends on:
ii  cups-filters [foomatic-filters]  1.28.10-2
ii  dc                               1.07.1-3+b1
ii  libc6                            2.32-5
ii  libcups2                         2.3.3op2-7
ii  libjbig0                         2.1-3.1+b2
ii  liblcms2-utils                   2.12~rc1-2
ii  printer-driver-foo2zjs-common    20200505dfsg0-2

Versions of packages printer-driver-foo2zjs recommends:
ii  cups         2.3.3op2-7
ii  cups-client  2.3.3op2-7
ii  mscompress   0.4-9
ii  unzip        6.0-26
ii  wget         1.21.2-2+b1

Versions of packages printer-driver-foo2zjs suggests:
ii  hannah-foo2zjs  1:4+b1
ii  psutils         1.17.dfsg-4

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