Splix: 2.0.1 release, stop tarball and versioning nightmare

2024-04-03 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, The absence of a new SpliX release for 15 years now has caused some bad things with it, especially: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/splix/+bug/2060038 splix version 2.0.0+svn315-7fakesync1ubuntu0.22.04.1 in jammy is higher than versions in mantic and noble To stop with

Bug#1065157: cups-core-drivers: Filters ignore cupsManualCopies

2024-03-31 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 31/03/2024 22:23, Paul Szabo wrote: (Sadly, my other issues were "declined" upstream. Maybe they know what they are doing...) Where did you report them? Till

Bug#1065157: cups-core-drivers: Filters ignore cupsManualCopies

2024-03-30 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 30/03/2024 23:19, Paul Szabo wrote: Most issues now reported upstream: https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/issues/917 https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/issues/918 https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/issues/919 The issue with pdftopdf not reported upstream, because I could not find the

cups package: Please remove Debian's own cups.pc

2024-03-26 Thread Till Kamppeter
Thorsten, in cups 2.4.7-1 you have introduce your own cups.pc file, via debian/cups.pc.in and debian/rules. CUPS upstream has a cups.pc already since 2.4.6 and it is much more sophisticated than yours, especially it contains the system directories of CUPS (like /usr/share/cups/). So in

Re: New HPLIP releases, now 3.23.12, but Debian package still 3.22.10

2024-02-28 Thread Till Kamppeter
introduction of CUPS 3.x (25.04 at the earliest) we will provide all printer and scanner drivers in Snap format. Till On 27/02/2024 23:34, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: Hi Till, On Tue, 27 Feb 2024, Till Kamppeter wrote: Are there plans for further updates? Or plans for abandoning HPLIP in Debian

New HPLIP releases, now 3.23.12, but Debian package still 3.22.10

2024-02-27 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, according to https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/release_notes HPLIP's current upstream version is 3.23.12, while the Debian package is still based on version 3.22.10: https://salsa.debian.org/printing-team/hplip.v2/-/commits/debian/main/?ref_type=HEADS Did you try

Re: Debian packages of cpdb-libs and cpdb-backend-cups

2024-02-14 Thread Till Kamppeter
ase candidate (like "2.0rc1") versions. 2nd generation of CPDB is essentially important. The first generation is lacking a lot of needed features. Till On 15/02/2024 00:04, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: Hi Till, On Wed, 14 Feb 2024, Till Kamppeter wrote: Thorsten, would you introduce th

Debian packages of cpdb-libs and cpdb-backend-cups

2024-02-14 Thread Till Kamppeter
Thorsten, you have probably followed OpenPrinting and seen that for using CUPS 3.x (or any CUPS as Snap package) the printing functionality needs changes, especially the print dialogs must be able to work all-IPP without using PPD files and also need to cope with temporary CUPS queues. So

Re: pstotext - OK to remove completely?

2024-01-06 Thread Till Kamppeter
I did not even know that pstotext exists, even not back in the early 2000s when I established CUPS as Linux' standard printing environment. So can be removed, nobody will miss it ... Till On 06/01/2024 13:43, Steven Robbins wrote: Hi, I randomly bumped into a reference to "pstotext" just

Re: Picking up orphaned ghostscript

2023-12-23 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 23/12/2023 11:25, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: Hi Steven, On 22.12.23 18:47, Steven Robbins wrote: I noticed recently that ghostscript has been orphaned and decided I'll volunteer to be maintainer. great, so I can remove an item from my agenda :-). >From the wiki site, I can see that

Final 2.0.0 release of the second generation of cups-filters!

2023-09-22 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, I have done the final 2.0.0 Release of the new cups-filters components now! It contains the fix for security vulnerability CVE-2023-4504 in libppd and several fixes for bugs reported after RC2. Here we go:

Re: Request for Removal: Unmaintained libppd in Debian

2023-08-31 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 31/08/2023 12:30, Christoph Biedl wrote: Greetings, we had this discussion on printing several months ago ... Till Kamppeter wrote... On 25/12/2022 10:20, Christoph Biedl wrote: This however should be discussed with all the related package maintainers and on debian-devel as well

Bug#1039983: Color Laser-Printer does only print in greyscale after upgrade to Debian 12

2023-07-22 Thread Till Kamppeter
Probably you are hitting this bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/1971242 The bug is fixed upstream in CUPS 2.4.3 and later and I have created 2 Stable Release Updates (SRUs) for Ubuntu Jammy (CUPS 2.4.1) and Lunar (CUPS 2.4.2). So you could try these fixes and they could

Second Release Candidate of the second generation of cups-filters released!

2023-07-04 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, I have done the Second Release Candidate of the new cups-filters components now! It covers the fixes of bugs reported shortly after the release of the first two distros (Ubuntu 23.04, Fedora 38) including cups-filters 2.x (2.0rc1). Also a fix resulting from testing the fully updated

Re: Debian Packages for the New Architecture

2023-06-01 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 01/06/2023 00:18, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: Hi Till, On Wed, 31 May 2023, Till Kamppeter wrote: I do not know how far the Bookworm release process has progressed and whether the new development cycle has already started. the release is planned on 2023-06-10 and afterwards the fun may begin

Debian Packages for the New Architecture

2023-05-31 Thread Till Kamppeter
These packages need to get updated to the newest version - gtk4 with CPDB support CPDB packages (see above) and gtk4 need to be updated gtk4 needs to be built with CPDB support, see example in my Ubuntu PPA: https://launchpad.net/~till-kamppeter/+archive/ubuntu/new-arch-dev - PAPPL Package

Release Candidate of the second generation of cups-filters released!

2023-04-12 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, I have done the Release Candidate of the new cups-filters components now! Finally checking through one bugs, not yet merged pull requests, and GSoC contributor candidate assignments, and also doing a lot of further testing, many bugs got fixed. Especially the orientation-requested and

Forth beta of the cups-browsed in the second generation of cups-filters released!

2023-03-21 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, I have done the forth beta release of the new, separated cups-browsed package, one of the new components of the former cups-filters. Central part of this release isa new test script, to be used both for build tests ( "make check") and tests on the packages installed into a system (like

Re: Ghostscript orphaned

2023-02-14 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 14/02/2023 00:01, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: Oh, I have to admit I have no clue what this means :-). But in case leptonica is related to leptonlib, keeping the convenience copy is a very bad thing as leptonlib is affected by lots of CVEs. The same seems to happen with tesseract ... And please

Re: Ghostscript orphaned

2023-02-14 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 13/02/2023 23:46, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: This is just some Wiki page. Before Jonas orphanded the package, the Maintainer: was set to the Debian Printing Team but the repository was still in the Debian-namespace. Now, the Maintainer: is set to the QA team and just this Wiki page mentions

First beta of the second generation of the Common Print Dialog Backends released!

2023-02-14 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, We are now releasing the second beta of the second generation of the Common Print Dialog Backends (CPDB). In the 4.9.4 version of GTK the Merge Request [1] for Gaurav Gulerias GSoC work [2] on adding CPDB support to GTK’s print dialog got finally accepted. To reach this goal, Gaurav

Re: Ghostscript orphaned

2023-02-13 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 13/02/2023 19:30, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: Hi Till, On 13.02.23 11:44, Till Kamppeter wrote: For me this means that Jonas has dropped maintainership of this package. Am I right? yes, you are right. Thorsten, as Ghostscript is mainly used for printing (rasterizing PDF, converting PDF

Ghostscript orphaned

2023-02-13 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, I have looked into the Debian package of Ghostscript 10.00.0 now and seen the following in its changelog: -- ghostscript (10.0.0~dfsg-4) unstable; urgency=medium * orphan package: set maintainer to Debian QA Group -- Jonas Smedegaard Mon, 24 Oct 2022 13:54:55 +0200

Third beta of the second generation of cups-filters released!

2023-01-31 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, I have done the third beta releases of the new cups-filters components now! During creation of the Debian, Ubuntu, and Red Hat packages for the components of the 2nd-generation of cups-filters and also during the investigation of reported issues some more bugs got discovered and fixed.

cups-filters 1.28.17 released!

2023-01-24 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, I have released cups-filters 1.28.17 now, with the following changes: - libcupsfilters: In PPD generator create only one *cupsFilter2: line for raster. Only use the most desirable/reliable format, usually Apple Raster. - libcupsfilters: In

PAPPL Update to 1.3.1

2023-01-22 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, could you update PAPPL to 1.3.1 in Ubuntu unstable if the Bookworm freezes still allow it? Thanks. Till

Re: compiler warnings against recent CUPS

2023-01-22 Thread Till Kamppeter
Do you mean all these warnings about deprecated PPD-file-related functions? These are harmless for now, as long as the target distro, like Bookworm (and also Ubuntu 23.04 and 23.10) currently, uses a CUPS 2.x version with libcups2. The deprecated functions get actually removed in CUPS 3.x

Re: Debian printing packages

2023-01-16 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 16/01/2023 15:15, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: oh, I am afraid I won't attend this DebConf ... Had been nice to meet you in India ... But I am also not sure yet whether I will go. There are many conferences throughout the year. You could perhaps do uploads of the New Architecture stuff

Re: Debian printing packages

2023-01-15 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 15/01/2023 09:21, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: Hi Till, The new version sounds like a SONAME change in cpdb-libs? So, yes this is too late for Bookworm. Yes, I has API changs as we had to add several important features, especially human-readable UI strings, translations and options

Debian printing packages

2023-01-11 Thread Till Kamppeter
Thorsten, thank you very much for your inclusion of the Common Print Dialog Backends packages in Debian. they will make the base for the Ubuntu packages, ideally by syncing, and they will also help me to get the MIRs (Main Inclusion Requests) of these packages in Ubuntu accepted. For all of

Second beta of the second generation of cups-filters released!

2023-01-08 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, I have done the second beta releases of the new cups-filters components now! During creation of the Debian/Ubuntu packages for the components of the 2nd-generation cups-filters and also during the further development of the Common Print Dialog Backends (CPDB) some bugs were discovered

Introduction of the Common Print Dialog Backends into Debian

2023-01-03 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, in 2017 I had created a new concept to maintain the printing technology support in GUI toolkits and applications centralized and separate from the GUI toolkits and applications, the Common Print Dialog Backends (CPDB). The problem is that the print dialogs in GUI toolkits (GTK/Qt) and

Re: Request for Removal: Unmaintained libppd in Debian

2022-12-30 Thread Till Kamppeter
For smooth updating and easy fade-out of PPD file support on the actual switchover to the New Architecture, I will create the following relationships between Debian packages (note that on the old system we had cups-filters 1.x and CUPS 2.x and after the update we want cups-filters 2.x

Re: Request for Removal: Unmaintained libppd in Debian

2022-12-30 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 30/12/2022 06:19, Christoph Biedl wrote: Christoph Biedl wrote... 2. Allow co-existence by renaming legacy libppd The conflicting binary package from (legacy) libppd is renamed to avoid a conflict with your version. So "libppd-dev" could become "libppd-legacy-dev", and keep

Re: Request for Removal: Unmaintained libppd in Debian

2022-12-28 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 28/12/2022 16:40, Christoph Biedl wrote: Thanks for that, I guess all my concerns are resolved. Great! (...) This gives for libppd2: /usr/lib/libppd.so.2.0.0 /usr/lib/libppd.so.2 None of my business, but I'd expect some ${DEB_TARGET_MULTIARCH} here. Yes, the Deabian packages have

Re: Request for Removal: Unmaintained libppd in Debian

2022-12-27 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 27/12/2022 09:33, Christoph Biedl wrote: Till Kamppeter wrote... [ migrating legacy-libppd applications to libppd2 ] Unfortunately, it is not that simple but also not over-complicated. The developers had ripped the code for PPD handling from libcups, but they did not like Michael Sweet's

Re: Request for Removal: Unmaintained libppd in Debian

2022-12-27 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 27/12/2022 09:33, Christoph Biedl wrote: No, this was rather to Thorsten, and suggesting we could ship cups-filters in both versions in bookworm. That was a service for our users as they can freely choose when to migrate, and maintainers have less pressure to fix any bugs immediately. But I

Re: Request for Removal: Unmaintained libppd in Debian

2022-12-26 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 25/12/2022 10:20, Christoph Biedl wrote: Thorsten Alteholz wrote... On Fri, 23 Dec 2022, Till Kamppeter wrote: Now one question: Could we implement (2) already in the current Debian release (the one which freezes in a few weeks) or do we have to stay with cups-filters 1.x there and do all

Re: Request for Removal: Unmaintained libppd in Debian

2022-12-26 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 25/12/2022 10:20, Christoph Biedl wrote: Till Kamppeter wrote... As both libppd are rip-outs from CUPS, their APIs are very similar, so one could add some *.h file (and perhaps one *.c file with simple wrapper functions) to make my modern libppd replacing the legacy one so that we can ditch

Re: Request for Removal: Unmaintained libppd in Debian

2022-12-23 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 23/12/2022 22:01, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: the next Debian release will still have cups-filters 1.x As long as libppd is independent of cups-filters 2.x (at least I understood your first email this way), the new libppd could be already added. The new libppd needs libcupsfilters 2.x, so it

Re: Request for Removal: Unmaintained libppd in Debian

2022-12-23 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 23/12/2022 19:30, Till Kamppeter wrote: Is the API of the legacy libppd complex? Or could one find someone who could add this API to my modern libppd to keep these users happy and give them even a maintained library. I have downloaded the upstream source of the legacy libppd now

Re: Request for Removal: Unmaintained libppd in Debian

2022-12-23 Thread Till Kamppeter
pd to keep these users happy and give them even a maintained library. Till On 23/12/2022 16:52, Christoph Biedl wrote: Hi there, Till Kamppeter wrote... Christoph, as you are the Debian maintainer of it, I want to ask you whether this package has still any use or whether you could invoke t

Request for Removal: Unmaintained libppd in Debian

2022-12-22 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, I am Till Kamppeter, leader of the OpenPrinting project (http://www.openprinting.org/). Here we maintain practically everything printing-related, CUPS, cups-filters, Foomatic, Printer Applications, ... So I am responsible for printing in Linux and similar (POSIX-style) operating systems

First beta of the second generation of the Common Print Dialog Backends released!

2022-12-13 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, We are now releasing the first beta of the second generation of the Common Print Dialog Backends (CPDB). As part of making everything ready for the New Architecture of printing we have finally added CPDB support to the print dialogs of the major desktop environments/GUI toolkits,

First beta the second generation of cups-filters released!

2022-11-18 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, I have done another cups-filters release now! But now it is a special on: After more than 2 years of hard work and following the needs of the New Architecture for printing and scanning, of the Printer Applications, of the abolishment of PPD file use in CUPS 3.x, ... I have now completed

Re: cups-filters 1.28.16 released!

2022-08-24 Thread Till Kamppeter
And do not forget to add libexif-dev to the build dependencies, otherwise the changes will not work. Till On 24/08/2022 15:21, Till Kamppeter wrote: Hi, I have released cups-filters 1.28.16 now, with the following changes: - imagetoraster, imagetopdf, libcupsfilters: Added support

cups-filters 1.28.16 released!

2022-08-24 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, I have released cups-filters 1.28.16 now, with the following changes: - imagetoraster, imagetopdf, libcupsfilters: Added support for reading the resolution of an image from its EXIF data when loading it. This way we get the image reproduced in its

Re: gutenprint_5.3.4.20220624T01008808d602-1_source.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2022-08-17 Thread Till Kamppeter
Thorsten, I would like to know why you are updating the Debian package of Gutenprint to this upstream GIT snapshot (the version number suggessts that this is a snapshot and not a release). Especially also whether I need to also update the Gutenprint Printer Application Snap. Does this fix an

Re: HPLIP

2022-08-16 Thread Till Kamppeter
The new version of the HPLIP Printer Application (with HPLIP 3.22.6) is available in the Snap Store now (https://snapcraft.io/hplip-printer-app). Thanks again Thorsten, for your Debian package update. Till On 16/08/2022 20:17, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: Hi Till, On 11.08.22 20:07, Till

Re: HPLIP

2022-08-16 Thread Till Kamppeter
Thank you very much. I am test-building the new HPLIP Printer Application Snap right now. The Ubuntu package will be auto-synced with Debian until tomorrow. Till On 16/08/2022 20:17, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: Hi Till, On 11.08.22 20:07, Till Kamppeter wrote: could you update the Debian

HPLIP

2022-08-11 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, could you update the Debian package of HPLIP to the newest version (3.22.6?)? We have Feature Freeze at Ubuntu in 2 weeks and it would be great to have a newer HPLIP included. Thanks in advance. Till

Bug#1013437: cups: Nothing prints from driverless IPP queues unless added via lpadmin

2022-06-27 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 27/06/2022 19:26, Gareth Evans wrote: "testq" already exists, so I changed the queue name to avoid any potential caching effects etc in case that were possible. $ sudo lpadmin -p testqq -v ipp://192.168.0.14/ipp/print -E -m driverless:ipp://192.168.0.14/ipp/print lpadmin: Printer drivers

Bug#1013437: cups: Nothing prints from driverless IPP queues unless added via lpadmin

2022-06-27 Thread Till Kamppeter
And are you able to print now? Till On 27/06/2022 17:57, Gareth Evans wrote: However that is when the laptop is connected to 5GHz wifi. If I change to the 2.5GHz connection (same router) on which (router and frequency) the printer is connected: $ avahi-browse -rt _ipp._tcp + wlp1s0 IPv4

HPLIP 3.22.4 is out

2022-05-02 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, HPLIP 3.22.4 got released: https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/gethplip?language=ko I am grateful when the Debian package could soon be updated, so that I can update the HPLIP Printer Application Snap in the Snap Store. Till

cups-filters 1.28.15 released!

2022-04-11 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, I have released cups-filters 1.28.15 now, with the following changes: - pdftops: In pdftops identify old LaserJets more precisely for working around PostScript interpreter bugs, older printers need Poppler, newer models need Ghostscript (Ubuntu bug

Bug#1008997: cups: impossible to print on hp envy 5536 from sid

2022-04-06 Thread Till Kamppeter
Now run the command driverless and, if you get the URI, run lpadmin -p envy -E -v ipp://localhost:6/ipp/print -m everywhere Does it work now? Till On 06/04/2022 11:28, alain wrote: Package: cups Version: 2.4.1op1-2 Followup-For: Bug #1008997 X-Debbugs-Cc:

Bug#1008997: further information

2022-04-05 Thread Till Kamppeter
First step is to go to http://www.openprinting.org/ There you scroll down and find a link to the "Driverless Printers" list. Click "Browse". You get onto https://openprinting.github.io/printers/ into the search field enter "Envy 553". The last digit does not matter. Different last digits

cups-filters 1.28.14 released!

2022-04-04 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, I have released cups-filters 1.28.14 now, with the following changes: - pdftopdf: Correct the output when suppressing auto-rotation (option "nopdfAutoRotate"). Depending on the situation pages got cropped in the wrong orientation or de-centered. -

Bug#1008175: #1008175

2022-03-27 Thread Till Kamppeter
The log message "Unable to do two-sided printing" comes from the "ipp" CUPS backend, part of CUPS. It seems that the backend does not find the "sides" attribute in the printer's IPP attributes. See the code here: -- if (ipp_status == IPP_STATUS_OK_IGNORED_OR_SUBSTITUTED ||

cups-filters 1.28.13 released!

2022-03-27 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, I have released cups-filters 1.28.13 now, with the following changes: - pdftopdf: Fix N-up printing when paper is taken long-edge-first by the printer. - pdftopdf: Fix cropping ("print-scaling=none" and "print-scaling=fill") when paper is taken

HPLIP 3.22.2 is out!

2022-03-07 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, HPLIP 3.22.2 got released: https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/release_notes Could you update the Debian package? Thanks. Till

Bug#1006892: cups-browsed: Local queues are not created for discovered printers

2022-03-07 Thread Till Kamppeter
Probably cause by https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1006853 Till

CUPS 2.4.1

2022-02-18 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, some days ago, CUPS 2.4.1 got released, but Debian seems to be still on CUPS 2.3.3op2 from September 2021, whereas most other printing-related packages got updated. Could you update CUPS in unstable? Or is there something broken in CUPS 2.4.0 and 2.4.1? I would be very grateful if you

cups-filters 1.28.12 released!

2022-02-17 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, I have released cups-filters 1.28.12 now, with the following changes: - imagetoraster, imagetopdf: Fixed comparison of the image size with the page size for print-scaling=auto. The image size in pixels was compared with the page size in PostScript

cups-filters 1.28.11 released!

2022-01-15 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, I have released cups-filters 1.28.11 now, with the following changes: - libcupsfilters: Let PPD generator take default ColorModel from printer (CUPS issue #277). - Braille: In vectortopdf check inkscape version to call inkscape with the correct command

HPLIP 3.21.10 is out

2021-11-09 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, here is the new HPLIP: https://sourceforge.net/projects/hplip/files/hplip/3.21.10/hplip-3.21.10.tar.gz Till

Re: Two Debian printer driver packages unusable: c2050 and fxlinuxprint

2021-10-22 Thread Till Kamppeter
Thank you very much. I have updated the Snap now, so that it loads the current versions of the Debian packages and does not apply the patches by itself anymore. It is up in the Snap Store now. Till On 21/10/2021 17:36, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: Hi Till, thanks a lot for the patches.

Two Debian printer driver packages unusable: c2050 and fxlinuxprint

2021-10-19 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, above-mentioned printer driver packages are currently unusable as their filter executables segfault, especially c2050 always crashes, independent of the input. The filters of fxlinuxprint at least sometimes crash. I have fixed both, eliminating the crashes completely. For fxlinuxprint

Bug#990210: fixed in cups-pdf 3.0.1-12

2021-10-01 Thread Till Kamppeter
he DSC comments, letting the second number in the "%%Page:" lines going from 1 to 993 instead of being the same as the first number, starting from 1 again and again. This seems to make the viewers accepting all pages. I hope this gives some insight. On 01/10/2021 13:11, Andre Heider

Bug#990210: fixed in cups-pdf 3.0.1-12

2021-10-01 Thread Till Kamppeter
Andre, could you attach your PostScript file, once the original and also the one you get after pre-processing when using "GSCall echo %s %s %s; cp %s /tmp"? Thanks. -- On 28/09/2021 14:20, Andre Heider wrote: Indeed, still only getting an empty pdf on that file too. That's another

Re: Printing works but still getting error messages

2021-09-19 Thread Till Kamppeter
I now have done a fix on the GIT of cups-filters (both branches, master and 1.x) to prevent the error you mentioned. Till On 19/09/2021 15:07, Daniel Haid wrote: Till, it is exactly as you said: After manually adding the queue, the one from cups-browsed disappeared. Then I removed the

Re: Printing works but still getting error messages

2021-09-19 Thread Till Kamppeter
Thanks for the error_log. The error message -- E [19/Sep/2021:12:16:51 +0200] [Job 13] File \'\' not found -- is harmless. It only means that no color management profile is present for this printer. In this case a standard profile of Poppler is used. We should demote this

Re: Printing works but still getting error messages

2021-09-19 Thread Till Kamppeter
[ Re-posting for Daniel Haid, original poster ] On 18/09/2021 22:30, Daniel Haid wrote: The entry is not in the 'lpstat -t' output. You are not using the Brother drivers too, are you? I'm without a good idea here. No, but I have read that the GTK printing dialog does its own searching for

cups-filters 1.28.10 released!

2021-08-17 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, I have released cups-filters 1.28.10 now, with the following changes: - Sample PPDs: Add borderless page size definitions to Generic PDF Printer, HP Color LaserJet CM3530 MFP PDF, and Ricoh PDF Printer PPD files. - Sample PPDs: From the PDF PPD files

Re: driverless printing awesomeness

2021-07-09 Thread Till Kamppeter
Tomas, thanks for your information! Alex, another scanner working with sane-airscan: EPSON ET-3750_Series Could you add it to your list? Till On 09/07/2021 12:49, Tomas Pospisek wrote: Hi Brian, On Tue, 6 Jul 2021, Brian Potkin wrote: On Tue 06 Jul 2021 at 09:54:29 +0200, Tomas

Re: driverless printing awesomeness

2021-07-02 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 02/07/2021 21:52, Brian Potkin wrote: Thank you for your appreciative mail. Is the device USB- or network-connected? Also thanks for your mail. Great to also hear from an Epson user (Epson ET-3750) that our driverless printing support is working. It's USB connected. You are using

cups-filters 1.28.9 released!

2021-06-15 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, I have released cups-filters 1.28.9 now, with the following changes: - libcupsfilters: Silenced compiler warnings - libcupsfilters: Removed duplicate code in the apply_filters() function. - driverless: If there are no driverless IPP printers

Re: Release Notes for Debian 11 (bullseye)

2021-04-04 Thread Till Kamppeter
For me this looks all OK. Thank you very much for documenting this. Till On 04/04/2021 17:03, Brian Potkin wrote: It is remiss of me not to have drawn everyone's attention to this documentation before now. Please cast an eye over it to see whether it fits the bill.

Re: cups-filters 1.28.8 released!

2021-03-30 Thread Till Kamppeter
Thank you very much. Till On 30/03/2021 19:51, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Le jeudi, 25 mars 2021, 18.54:41 h CEST Till Kamppeter a écrit : Hi, I have released cups-filters 1.28.8 now, with the following changes: - libcupsfilters: Made check whether the driverless PPD

cups-filters 1.28.8 released!

2021-03-25 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, I have released cups-filters 1.28.8 now, with the following changes: - libcupsfilters: Made check whether the driverless PPD to generate should be a fax out PPD more reliable (Issue #343). - foomatic-rip: Options in the 5th command line argument of the

Bug#983474: ipp-usb: breaks scanning with HP Deskjet 5275

2021-02-24 Thread Till Kamppeter
Updating SANE (libsane1, sane-backends) from 1.0.31 to 1.0.32 could perhaps fix the scanning with installed ipp-usb and the "escl" backend. 1.0.32 (released upstream a few weeks ago) has a lot of fixes and improvements on the "escl" backend. You could install sane-airscan. This is an extra

Printer driver meta package

2021-02-23 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, I got aware about which printer drivers are auto-installed when installing a printer driver meta package (printer-driver-all, printer-driver-app-enforce): https://salsa.debian.org/printing-team/printing-metas/-/blob/master/debian/printer-driver-recommends.list The list needs a slight

Re: HPLIP 3.21.2

2021-02-21 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 21/02/2021 18:30, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Le vendredi, 19 février 2021, 21.44:58 h CET Till Kamppeter a écrit : Hi, HPLIP 3.21.2 is available now. I appreciate a lot if it could be packaged so that it can get synced into Ubuntu. Despite the current Bullseye freeze, I uploaded hplip

HPLIP 3.21.2

2021-02-19 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, HPLIP 3.21.2 is available now. I appreciate a lot if it could be packaged so that it can get synced into Ubuntu. Till

Bug#982742: cups: config of usb printer now impossible due to usblp and libusb conficting (used to work!)

2021-02-15 Thread Till Kamppeter
OK, no I understand, fresh installation or live ISO all works perfectly as intended, old installation shows the problem, so further investigations only on the old installation ... Till

Bug#982742: cups: config of usb printer now impossible due to usblp and libusb conficting (used to work!)

2021-02-15 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 15/02/2021 14:27, mh wrote: I then investigated the LIVE-ISO. To my surprise ipp-usb is installed within the LIVE-ISO. ipp-usb is part of the standard installation in Debian and Ubuntu, to support printers which do driverless IPP printing. Standard-conforming printers should work

Bug#982742: cups: config of usb printer now impossible due to usblp and libusb conficting (used to work!)

2021-02-15 Thread Till Kamppeter
Alexander, on https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=982742 Michael Hatzold (CCed) reports a problem with ipp-usb. The printer provides a 7/1/4 interface on USB, meaning that it supports IPP-over-USB and with this, according to the standards, driverless printing (and scanning if

Bug#980973: Cups attempts to probe, configure unsupported Canon USB printers

2021-01-26 Thread Till Kamppeter
Please report this to CUPS upstream at https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups Note trhat CUPS is not maintained at Apple any more but at OpenPrinting now. We need the USB IDs (VID/PID) of all affected devices, at least of as many devices as possible. Till On 24/01/2021 23:46, Chris

PAPPL - Library for Printer Applications

2021-01-14 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, PAPPL has been officially released as a stable version: https://github.com/michaelrsweet/pappl/releases/tag/v1.0.0 https://github.com/michaelrsweet/pappl/releases/tag/v1.0.1 https://openprinting.github.io/pappl-1.0.0/ I wold appreciate if it gets packaged for Debian. We will sync it also

CUPS 2.3.3op1: Possible delays when starting CUPS, autopkg tests in debian/tests/ not working

2021-01-08 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, in the OpenPrinting fork of CUPS we got a contribution from Zdenek Dohnal switching cups to the systemd service typoe "notify": -- commit e96e96b4bd0d4e6f634bbb66b95d6e475501541c Author: Zdenek Dohnal Date: Wed Nov 25 08:12:32 2020 +0100 [Fedora] cups.service.in: Use

Bug#979177: cups-filters-core-drivers: Adding a printer impossible because "driverless" is too slow

2021-01-07 Thread Till Kamppeter
I have released cups-filters 1.28.7 with the fix now. https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/releases/tag/1.28.7

cups-filters 1.28.7 released!

2021-01-07 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, I have released cups-filters 1.28.7 now, with the following changes: - driverless: Removed the support quality check from Pull request #235 as it takes significant time for each printer being listed, making cups-driverd (`lpinfo -m`) timing out when

Bug#979177: cups-filters-core-drivers: Adding a printer impossible because "driverless" is too slow

2021-01-07 Thread Till Kamppeter
I have investigated the problem further and the problem is caused by "driverless" sending get-printer-attributes IPP requests to each printer it lists, to check the quality of driverless printing support. See https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/pull/235 This makes "driverless" taking

Bug#979177: cups-filters-core-drivers: Adding a printer impossible because "driverless" is too slow

2021-01-06 Thread Till Kamppeter
The problem also got reported upstream: https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/issues/65 Could you also see the discussion there and try what got suggested there? I by myself am not able to reproduce it, so I need someone who can reproduce it to find out under which conditions it happens.

Re: Contact possibility for Odyx/Didier

2020-12-04 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 03/12/2020 19:44, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: Thanks for the explanation. Are the man page translation are also transferred there? If so, would it be possible that I continue to (dirictly) manage it (i.e. keep the translation current)? Greetings Helge Where do your man page

cups-filters 1.28.6 released!

2020-12-02 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, I have released cups-filters 1.28.6 now, with the following changes: - libcupsfilters: In generated PPDs add a grayscale mode if there are only color printing modes (from OpenPrinting CUPS). - libcupsfilters: In generated PPDs add an "OutputBin" option

Re: Contact possibility for Odyx/Didier

2020-12-01 Thread Till Kamppeter
Apple seems to have stopped developing CUPS since Michael Sweet has left Apple in the end of 2019. After some time I have created together with Michael Sweet a fork of the CUPS upstream repository on OpenPrinting: https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups Michael Sweet is actively applying pull

Re: cups-filters 1.28.5 released!

2020-10-14 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 14/10/2020 18:44, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Le mardi, 13 octobre 2020, 17.38:13 h CEST Till Kamppeter a écrit : Hi, I have released cups-filters 1.28.5 now. Uploaded. Thanks. Till

cups-filters 1.28.5 released!

2020-10-13 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, I have released cups-filters 1.28.5 now, with the following changes: - cups-browsed: UUID from IPP response was used after its pointer was freed by ippDelete() (Pull request #311). Bug fix release for a quick, potential crasher correction in cups-browsed Please release

Re: cups-filters 1.28.4 released!

2020-10-10 Thread Till Kamppeter
Thank you very much. Till On 10/10/2020 10:54, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Le jeudi, 8 octobre 2020, 12.35:58 h CEST Till Kamppeter a écrit : Hi, I have released cups-filters 1.28.4 now Uploaded.

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