Re: Printer pull half of a second blank page after the first printed page and stops
On Tue 19 Mar 2019 at 01:45:20 +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
> On 19.03.2019 0:38, Brian wrote:
> > The advice is good but is there a good reason to advocate installing
> > hplip from source rather than from the stretch package?
> >
> I didn't advocated per se the installation of upstream package, the
> point was to tell OP of it's existence, among the other things.
> As I stated before, I never used hplip myself, but it's good to know it
> is already in official repositories.
You could have checked beforehand.
>
> $ rmadison -s stretch,stretch-backports hplip
> hplip | 3.16.11+repack0-3 | stable | source, amd64,
> arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x
> hplip | 3.18.12+dfsg0-2~bpo9+1 | stretch-backports | source, amd64,
> arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x
>
> I would recommend to install upstream package only if the most recent
> version of it is absolutely required and I highly doubt it is required
> in this case.
You doubt correctlly.
> But even then, personally, I'd try to build a backport from source
> package available from 'experimental' first, or build from a tarball and
> use tools, like 'checkinstall', to make a simple deb package.
> Those procedures are right thing to do, but it's for the users to decide
> if they are up for the task, because these procedures often require
> serious time investment and expertise.
Unnecessary. Backports already exist. It's only a matter of checking.
--
Brian.
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