Bug#1076032: hplip: Please package new upstream version (3.24.4)

[Agustin Martin <agmartin@debian.org>]

On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 05:28:53PM +0200, Agustin Martin wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2025 at 02:41:35PM -0400, rcm0502 wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 May 2025 21:31:15 +0200 Agustin Martin <agmartin@debian.org>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, Mar 01, 2025 at 05:38:43PM +0100, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> > > > It should be easy, just porting over the current Ubuntu package,
> > > > 3.24.4+dfsg0-0ubuntu4.
> > > >
> > > > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hplip/3.24.4+dfsg0-0ubuntu4
> > >
> > > For the records, I have been trying to upgrade hplip to 3.24.4 following
> > > "official"
> ...
> > > Results have been pushed to a personal repo at
> > >
> > > https://salsa.debian.org/agmartin/hplip.v2
> >
> > Is there a package or package group for trying out? I have an HP OfficeJet
> > Pro 8130e printer that's not supported by the current hplip package but is
> > supported in 3.24 upstream.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have uploaded it to my experimental area in people.debian.org
> 
> https://people.debian.org/~agmartin/debian-store/experimental
> 
> Repo is signed with my Debian gpg key and it only contains amd64 arch. I am
> attaching what I use for it under /etc/apt/sources.list.d

Hi,

In above salsa repo I have included changes in
hp-color_laserjet_mfp_e78635-ps.ppd by Till Kamppeter and proposed fix for
#1114148 (and #1115696). Resulting package uploaded to my pdo experimental
area.

I did not file a merge request because I do not like the way the
upstream/latest branch is in my salsa repo and do not want to have things
messed up by accident. I tried to follow official path (just with a minor
change to allow using intermediate upstream version), but e.g., seems that
no upstream/3.24.4+dfsg0 tag is bound to a commit in upstream/latest
branch, but only to a commit in upstream/latest-repack. May be I missed
something.

I also wonder what is the purpose of separate upstream/latest and
upstream/latest-repack branches. 

In my salsa repo there is a tmp-rebase/hplip-repack with two commits
showing the way I would do things via a uscan custom script. Removing
files is done by uscan (using copyright::Files-Excluded, which has been
extended, see first commit) and ungzipping is done with hplip-repack
custom script.

Regards,

-- 
Agustin