Control: retitle -1 ITP: ipp-usb -- Daemon for IPP over USB printer support
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Le lundi, 6 juillet 2020, 14.41:18 h CEST Till Kamppeter a écrit :
> 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?
I just became interested :-) ; so I will take a look in the following days;
perhaps next week.
Best regards,
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