Hi there!
On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:58:50 +0100, ilf wrote:
>> The firmware for some hp printers is not loaded when the device is
>> plugged
>
> Since work on the package seems to be stalled since Version
> 20070718dfsg-8,
This is not true: I already worked on the new version around two weeks
ago [1], but then I had stopped because of real life work (and other Debian
stuff) and I have already planned to finish this week :-)
FWIW, a new *unofficial* package is already available for people to be
tested (see bug #466758 [2]) and I am adapting all the quick changes I
did in that package to the official one.
> I dug into the upstream changelog, finding the relevant change at [1]:
>
> | 2007-11-10 Rick Richardson <rick.richardson@comcast.net>
> | * Modify: hplj10xx.rules to put -%n in the symlink field
>
> So for a quick workaround with the package, edit
>
> /etc/udev/rules.d/11-hplj10xx.rules
> changing
> SYSFS{product}=="HP LaserJet -> to -> SYSFS{product}=="hp LaserJet
> and
> SYMLINK+="hplj1000%e", -> to -> SYMLINK+="hplj1000n%n",
^
The above should be -> SYMLINK+="hplj1000-%n" .
> A new package with updated upstream sure would be nice, especially since
> this Bug is also present in the Lenny package 20070718dfsg-7.1, which
> uses the same (old) upstream.
This is probably the major problem: the lenny version is outdated and it
does not work with some printers [3]. OTOH, I am not really sure if at
this point of the release process a new upstream version will be ever
accepted into lenny. I cc:ed the d-release mailing list to know how to
proceed here: porting the fix to the outdated package or updating the
new version, asking for a lenny exception.
Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
Footnotes:
[1] http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/foo2zjs/trunk/foo2zjs_20081007dfsg/
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=466758#15
[3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=466758#10
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