Bug#961218: ipp-usb Packaging some more remarks
[ CCed debian-printing and Alexander Pevzner ]
Hi,
I have worked a lot with Alexander Pevzner on making ipp-usb what it is
now and I also have succeeded to get localhost support into Avahi.
Most was already told in the initial report, but I have some additional
remarks:
- IPP-over-USB is a very important standard to allow printing and
scanning without hardware-model-specific drivers when the device is
connected via USB. There is no way for driverless USB access to such
devices without using IPP-over-USB, Practically all modern
printer/scanner-multi-function devices support driverless IPP operation
including IPP-over-USB. This way we get thousands of printers and
scanners (and even sending fax) working, without needing to develop
drivers. ipp-usb is currently the only way to get this working reliably.
- The upstream source repository https://github.com/OpenPrinting/ipp-usb
(Note: it has moved to OpenPrinting) contains also the debian packaging
in its debian/ subdiectory, so packaging for Debian probably needs only
some simple corrections. The work load needed is very low. Also
maintaining would be easy as Alexander would probably help.
- I also want to introduce ipp-usb in Ubuntu, in 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)
which has Feature Freeze Aug 27. It would be great if I could sync from
Debian.
No one interested? OdyX, could you package/upload it?
Till
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