Thanks to Andreas Radke, here are some extra resources: * the same bug received a patch in Arch: bug: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/66704 patch: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/hplip&id=edd6e8898d6bfbf39888099171240f2c949f3669
* other relevant upstream issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/1879445 This issue has an attached patch: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/480406888/hplip-configure-python.patch I've just applied this patch to the current Debian source, and rebuilt the package. This fixes the issue for me. Regards, -- Florian Hatat