Bug#1053857: cups: CVE-2023-32360 instructions in NEWS have a typo and are unclear

2023-10-22 Thread Brendon Higgins
On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 14:22:27 -0400 Jonathan Kamens wrote: > In addition, after reading the NEWS entry and reviewing the contents > of my cupsd.conf file, I'm left completely clueless about whether I > actually need to change anything, or if doing so will break cups. I'm in exactly the same boat.

Bug#997795: closed by Brian Potkin (Re: Bug#997795: hplip: Make a hplip-plugin-installer package)

2021-10-30 Thread Brendon Higgins
Hi Brian, Thanks for the pointer to the official site. Looks like the OpenPrinting mirror has been corrected by now. Is it normal that hp-plugin tries to download from OpenPrinting instead of the official site? On Tuesday, October 26, 2021 1:52:43 P.M. EDT Brian Potkin wrote: > You are are not

Bug#997795: closed by Brian Potkin (Re: Bug#997795: hplip: Make a hplip-plugin-installer package)

2021-10-26 Thread Brendon Higgins
Hi Brian, On Tuesday, October 26, 2021 8:13:01 A.M. EDT Brian Potkin wrote: > On Mon 25 Oct 2021 at 16:07:36 -0400, Brendon Higgins wrote: > > Hi Brian, > > > > Perhaps I was unclear in my description. You responded: > > > You want to replace hp-plugin > >

Bug#997795: closed by Brian Potkin (Re: Bug#997795: hplip: Make a hplip-plugin-installer package)

2021-10-25 Thread Brendon Higgins
Hi Brian, Perhaps I was unclear in my description. You responded: > You want to replace hp-plugin On the contrary, I would think the proposed hplip-plugin-installer package would pre-depend on hplip and essentially just run hp-plugin in its postinst. It's complementary, not a replacement. >

Bug#997795: hplip: Make a hplip-plugin-installer package

2021-10-24 Thread Brendon Higgins
Source: hplip Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: bren...@quantumfurball.net Dear Maintainer, As I understand it, licensing restrictions mean that the HP plugin, necessary for some printers/scanners (including the MFC I own), cannot be packaged in the ordinary Debian way. Instead, currently, if the

Bug#960593: hplip: Requires login as root instead of as user

2021-04-11 Thread Brendon Higgins
On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 17:01:06 +0200 Teemu Ikonen wrote: > Note that this bug can be mitigated by adding the two lines below to > ~/.hplip/hplip.conf: > > -*- > [authentication] > su_sudo=sudo > -*- Good tip, thanks for that. Evidently it only works on a per-user basis - i.e., adding those

Bug#825383: /usr/share/hplip/doctor.py: hp-doctor will not accept sudo password and there is no root account

2019-01-14 Thread Brendon Higgins
On Saturday, 5 January 2019 1:49:47 PM EST Brian Potkin wrote: > On Fri 04 Jan 2019 at 11:58:53 -0500, Brendon Higgins wrote: > > hp-plugin, too. Do you have your upstream bug number handy? I'd like to > > follow progress (if any). > > It is referenced as a duplicate in the

Bug#825383: /usr/share/hplip/doctor.py: hp-doctor will not accept sudo password and there is no root account

2019-01-04 Thread Brendon Higgins
On Monday, 29 January 2018 2:46:40 PM EST Brian Potkin wrote: > Without any change to password.py the plugin will install with > > sudo hp-plugin -i > > So what was chrysn referring to? Perhaps my case can serve as an illustrative example: Every time hplip package updates, the next time I go