Control: retitle -1 ITP: ipp-usb -- Daemon for IPP over USB printer support Control: owner -1 !
Le lundi, 6 juillet 2020, 14.41:18 h CEST Till Kamppeter a écrit : > I have worked a lot with Alexander Pevzner on making ipp-usb what it is > now and I also have succeeded to get localhost support into Avahi. > > Most was already told in the initial report, but I have some additional > remarks: > > - IPP-over-USB is a very important standard to allow printing and > scanning without hardware-model-specific drivers when the device is > connected via USB. There is no way for driverless USB access to such > devices without using IPP-over-USB, Practically all modern > printer/scanner-multi-function devices support driverless IPP operation > including IPP-over-USB. This way we get thousands of printers and > scanners (and even sending fax) working, without needing to develop > drivers. ipp-usb is currently the only way to get this working reliably. > > - The upstream source repository https://github.com/OpenPrinting/ipp-usb > (Note: it has moved to OpenPrinting) contains also the debian packaging > in its debian/ subdiectory, so packaging for Debian probably needs only > some simple corrections. The work load needed is very low. Also > maintaining would be easy as Alexander would probably help. > > - I also want to introduce ipp-usb in Ubuntu, in 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) > which has Feature Freeze Aug 27. It would be great if I could sync from > Debian. > > No one interested? OdyX, could you package/upload it? I just became interested :-) ; so I will take a look in the following days; perhaps next week. Best regards, OdyX
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