Re: [Foo2zjs-maintainer] Bug#477923: Bug#477923: foo2zjs: Hotplug firmware not loaded because of switch to udev
Luca Capello wrote:
> 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 This is probably the major problem: the lenny version is outdated and it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 proceed here: porting the fix to the outdated package or updating the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.
A smaller diff would be appreciated.
Cheers
Luk
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