HPLIP

What is the situation with reguard to Debian 7.3?

Asked by Stephen Lyons

The site http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/support.html does not currently cover this (currently latest) version of "Wheezy" released December 2013.

Support for 7.2 was noted as a feature of HPLIP 3.13.11!

Strangely the version currently available from Debian repositories is 3.12.6
(with the warning message on start-up of:
"hp-systray: hp-systray(qt4)[<pid>]: error: Unable to find hp-upgrade --notify on path"
as Debian seem to exclude that item from their distribution...! 8-) )

Is anyone able to clarify the situation?

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#1

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Stephen Lyons (slysven) said : 		#2

I'm still unclear about things, Debian now at 7.4 ("Wheezy") but offering HPLIP at version 3.12.6 - though the release notes that that HPLIP version had added support for the latest Debian of 6.0.5 ("Squeeze")!

Bottom line: I've old but usable DeskJet 1220C and LaserJet 6L printer and I want to check that I've got them as usable as I can, obviously there are one or two things that later models have that these do not - no monitor of toner level on the LaserJet for instance and I can't get the parport_pc module to use a DMA even though there is one available for it.

I guess the package availability might be more of a Debian packages' maintainer issue but are there any issues between 3.12.6<-->current version that should be brought to their attention to address?

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Best Sarbeswar Meher (sarbeswar-meher) said : 		#3

The support of Debian 7.3 and 7.4 will be done in the next release of HPLIP 3.14.3. The package available in the distros are different, which are handled by distro people, not by hplip.

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Stephen Lyons (slysven) said : 		#4

OK, that is helpful to know, I'll keep a watch for 3.14.3 and then prod (err, ask nicely...!) the Debian distro team. I guess that they deliberately disable the update detection to avoid people trying to update distro packages with non-distro versions beyond what they have already checked and packaged up for their distros...!

Thanks - I'll mark this as solved and see what happens.

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Stephen Lyons (slysven) said : 		#5

Thanks Sarbeswar Meher, that solved my question.