Closed debiantriage closed 12 months ago
Wow! We are being recognized by the whole Hewlett-Packard company!
Well, we probably could add a whitelist option which overrides blacklist...
Well, that's why I highly recommend that if you turn to OS forums/portals, use the packages from your OS if they are available. I guess every distro removes that config file (I do it at least during packaging and I didn't find it in Ubuntu either, but I didn't look too deep), so that's the best we can do. I would not recommend whitelisting a blacklist in upstream code (if it wasn't sarcasm :) ).
To sum it up, if you install project from a different source than OS repos, you have to know what are you doing and if something doesn't work, ask that source for help.
This does not concern an issue with ipp-usb. It may be of interest to users and developers but I wouldn't be surprised should it be closed as needing no action.
A user required help to print with an HP Smart Tank 5100 Series. He had installed upstream's HPLIP 3.23.5. I do not do HPLIP with a modern device, so asked for outputs from avahi-browse and driverless. These outputs were empty. I was taken aback.
The user provided
ipp-usb knows the printer exists but avaahi-browse doesn't. Puzzling.
The user looked at the ipp-usb logs:
and
HPLIP.conf is a file proved by HPLIP. It effectively kills ipp-usb by blacklisting all HP debices. How smart is that?