Is there a package or package group for trying out? I have an HP
OfficeJet Pro 8130e printer that's not supported by the current hplip
package but is supported in 3.24 upstream.
On Fri, 2 May 2025 21:31:15 +0200 Agustin Martin <agmar...@debian.org>
wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 01, 2025 at 05:38:43PM +0100, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> > It should be easy, just porting over the current Ubuntu package,
> > 3.24.4+dfsg0-0ubuntu4.
> >
> > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hplip/3.24.4+dfsg0-0ubuntu4
>
> Hi,
>
> For the records, I have been trying to upgrade hplip to 3.24.4 following
> "official"
>
> make -f debian/rules get-orig-source
>
> procedure. This needed a (committed) minor change in debian/rules to
allow
> extra options be passed to gpg import-orig there and allow not the last
> version be targetted.
>
> I later tried to add Ubuntu changes by Till (missed
> 0085-Fix-hp-color-laserjet-mfp-e78635-ps-ppd.patch, but it should be
> straighforward to add) on top of Thorsten changes.
>
> Results have been pushed to a personal repo at
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/agmartin/hplip.v2
>
> in case they are useful for something.
>
> I have checked that resulting package builds and installs, but since
I have
> no HP printer here, just could check that things can be started.
>
> Also, looking with gitk seems that there are some difference between how
> upstream branches (latest and latest-repack) were handled before 3.22.6
> (upstream/2.22.6 could be compared directly with previous upstream
version)
> and 3.22.10, where it contains also Debian changes. With 3.24.4 I also
> found some minor difference in branches. May be some extra manual
tweak was
> needed.
>
> I wonder why not a plain uscan+watch driven repack script is used here,
> keeping track only of Debian upstream contents. I was playing with
something
> like this in a tmp-rebase/hplip-repack branch in the repo in case it is
> useful.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Agustin
>
>
