Hi
I'm not the developer, but I can try to help.
Debian Stable has a number of annoying bugs like this, and often enough
things fixed in Testing/sid don't trickle through to Stable. Despite the
"frozen" status "critical" bugs do get fixed in proposed-updates, but I
guess a lack of printing (for some) and an impression thereof (to
others) is not considered "critical". FWIW I've set severity to important.
And no, I wouldn't trust any dropbox packages or anything like that.
Remember you're giving that stuff root privileges. As to reliable, in
Linux-land you can only depend on yourself, unfortunately. I'd make a
"volounteer" comparison but the guys at apple/microsoft are payed and
often aren't compelled to fix stuff, either. :)
Anyway to get the python-cups from Jessie, you have to backport it from
sources. You can find instructions for doing so in the deban wiki:
https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation
This brings a lot of added packages to your computer, so you could
either use pbuilder (which I'm not familiar with), or debfoster.
Good luck,
Alad
Op 16-02-14 03:41, wobbly-hs schreef:
Dear developer
Further to message 136 - I'm the end user who has a bad impression here.
Printing worked in Debian 6 - I waited till Feb 14 to upgrade to Debian 7 so
any bugs should be sorted and.. no printing?
After investing lots of time trying to understand what is going on here it
seems that message 58 has a solution, but that involves installing software
from a dropbox account seemingly run by someone with no means of verification.
So now I have another question in my mind: Is that download safe to install?
or do I have to hop yet again to some other distro? I rely on getting my
software from the stable repository (read trust here), and judging by progress
it seems unlikely that 1.9.48 will be backported with a fix. The new version
of python-cups in Jessie is not compatible with the stable distro and again
judging by the time that has passed it is not likely to make it into the stable
version anytime soon. So I'm wondering if Debian stable is not to be relied on
from year to year, then what to do??
Jacek
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