Le mardi, 7 juillet 2020, 22.16:14 h CEST Didier 'OdyX' Raboud a écrit :
> Control: retitle -1 ITP: ipp-usb -- Daemon for IPP over USB printer support
> Control: owner -1 !
>
> 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?
As I just discovered, it's not as easy as just packaging ipp-usb; the current
packaging isn't Debian Policy compliant in that it relies on the network to
download the goipp package through go's packaging system: as Debian packages
need to be built without any network access, it means that I need to first
package goipp and all its eventual dependencies first.
This seems to be https://github.com/OpenPrinting/goipp , which needs to enter
Debian first. Would it be possible to release/tag it with some version (0.0.1
?)?
Now I need to get acquainted with Go packaging.
Regards,
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