Hi,
is anyone using a HP printer using mDNS/bonjour for discovery (AFAIK,
that would be most Envy models)? I used to have one, but it broke last
year, and my current printer is an OfficeJet that uses SLP.
Background: the current factory HPLIP package carries some SUSE-
specific patches that I wrote ~2y ago to make my Envy printer work more
reliably. They were made to fix frequent occurences of the "Unable to
communicate with device (code=12)" error from hplip. These patches
don't apply cleanly on hplip 3.17.11 any more (unfortunately, hplip
upstream didn't pick up my work). This has blocked updates to more
recent hplip releases in openSUSE for some time. We need to so
something about it. I've started to forward-port the patches, but as I
can't test them, it doesn't make a lot of sense to work on that.
The simplest option would be to ditch my mDNS patches - all else would
require much more effort, which nobody seems to have the time to spend.
If we do that, it'd be great if people using mDNS setups could watch
out for regressions.
See https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1102529 for more details.
Please email me off-list if you have a setup as above and if you think
you may volunteer to test and/or check for regressions.
Best,
Martin
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Dr. Martin Wilck