On Tue 25 Sep 2018 at 11:27:32 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Mon 24 Sep 2018 at 21:38:47 +0200, Till Kamppeter wrote: > > > On 24/09/18 20:53, Brian Potkin wrote: > > > An addition to the wiki: > > > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/DriverlessPrinting#IPP-over-USB > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Brian. > > > > > > > Note that the dummy0 is not the recommended method here. I was my first > > approach to work around the shortcomings of Avahi. > > > > The recommended method is to patch Avahi as described in README.md. This way > > no new network interface needs to get introduced, no service being started > > for it on boot, and, most important, printers appear on localhost as the > > standard for IPP-over-USB requires it. > > > > The patch for Avahi I have submitted upstream already long ago but it was > > simply not accepted due to the fact that Avahi's maintainer has disappeared > > and so Avahi is currently completely unmaintained (Volunteers, please!!!). > > At Ubuntu we carry this patch as a distro patch already for a year or so, > > without any problems and with IPP-over-USB printers working either with the > > systemd service which comes with ippusbxd or with the systemd service of > > system-config-printer-udev. > > > > It would be great if you could do the same implementation in Debian. > > FTR in this thread; I submitted #909564: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=909564 >
I also documented your advice at https://wiki.debian.org/DriverlessPrinting#IPP-over-USB_.28Short_version.29 https://wiki.debian.org/DriverlessPrinting#IPP-over-USB -- Brian.