I have been looking into two GTK merge requests [!6] and [!9], trying to figure out which one is the better candidate for a bullseye stable update.
[!6]: https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gtk3/-/merge_requests/6 [!9]: https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gtk3/-/merge_requests/9 This is an attempt to resolve https://bugs.debian.org/982925, and maybe other printing-related issues. Not all GTK programs necessarily use the unmodified GTK printing dialog, but the gedit package seems to be a good test-case. At the moment, I am leaning towards the more complete !6 being a better candidate for a stable update, even though it is technically a feature enhancement, which we don't usually do in stable. Please could people who have printers try the release candidate from here, and confirm whether it works as expected? https://people.debian.org/~smcv/bullseye-gtk-printing/mr6/ https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gtk3/-/commits/wip/bullseye-mr6 The _binary.changes and .dsc files are signed with my key in the Debian keyring, and can be verified with the dscverify tool from the devscripts package (this requires devscripts and debian-archive-keyring installed). If the release team will not accept !6, then the fallback option is !9: https://people.debian.org/~smcv/bullseye-gtk-printing/mr9/ https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gtk3/-/commits/wip/bullseye-mr9 Please send test results to #982925. There are a lot of moving parts here, so when reporting test results, please answer these questions: * Which versions of cups-daemon and cups-filters-core-drivers are installed? * What printers are physically present on your network? * Have you configured a printer queue in CUPS manually, or are you relying on auto-detection? * Is cups-browsed installed? If yes, which version? * What printer names appear in the GTK print dialog? (If they contain MAC addresses or serial numbers, you can censor them as XXXXXX) * For each printer name that appears: * Does it appear in /etc/cups/printers.conf? * Does printing to it work? * If not, what failure mode do you see? (Nothing happens / printer prints wrong results / other) Please note that I do not claim to be any sort of expert on printing. Anyone who thinks they can do a better job is welcome to take over any time. Thanks, smcv
