Thank you, Didier, I’ll try to peek the package from the unstable repo. I’m running an old usb printer without driverless printing capability connected to Raspberry Pi (equipped with Raspbian OS is based on Debian), so I have no choice but use one or another way the 6th version.
> Le 7 déc. 2020 à 18:41, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <o...@debian.org> a écrit : > > Hello Alexey, > > Debian already has brlaser in version 6; only in its sid/unstable version. It > has already migrated to Debian Bullseye (current testing, future stable), but > Debian doesn't normally push new upstream versions to Debian stable. Unless > there's a specific reason (such as a crash, a serious bug, etc) to backport > parts of the version 6 to stable, it won't happen. > > What are you specifically looking for in version 6 that might be missing from > version 4 ? Under certain conditions, it could make sense for Debian to > provide a backport, but I try to avoid ulpoading backports "just because". > Also, most recent network printers work (often much better) with Driverless > printing; https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting, making these > Manufacturer-specific drivers obsolete. > > Best regards, > > OdyX > > 6 décembre 2020 13:24 "Alexey K" <feuden...@gmail.com> a écrit: > >> Hello guys, >> >> I’m writing to ask if it could be possible to update the package >> printer-driver-brlaser >> (https://packages.debian.org/buster/printer-driver-brlaser) ? >> It’s built on top of 2 years old software >> (https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser/releases/tag/v4), >> since then the author has added a lot of more features (now it supports 3 >> times more printers) and >> now this set of drivers has reached the version number 6! >> Thank you! >> >> Alex
