Bug#982925: Request for testing: GTK for bullseye with improved CUPS printing support

[Jaycee Santos]

On Friday, February 25th, 2022 at 2:31 AM, Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org>
wrote:
> Wait, how is this printer connected? I thought we were talking about
> networked printers connected to your LAN. Is this one directly connected
> to your computer with USB? Or is it both?
It is both. I have been relying on USB to print for the past few months while
other devices (mostly apple/iOS devices and a laptop running Linux Mint) can
print using the LAN.

As I cannot install leafpad from the Debian repos, I substituted it with
featherpad instead.

It appears to not be a regression when I reverted GTK back to the version
in bullseye. Results below.

Merge request 6 (not 6.1) was somehow able to provide an entry in the
GTK print dialog that works through the LAN (and it still does after trying
mr6 again and unplugging the USB cable to be sure). It would only appear in
gedit and not in featherpad, as expected. I also think it was a bug acting
as a workaround for another bug.

I'll look into making/finding a separate bug report for my situation.

Jaycee

3.24.24-4 (Current in Bullseye)
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> * Which versions of cups-daemon and cups-filters-core-drivers are installed?
cups-daemon 2.3.3op2-3+deb11u1
cups-filters-core-drivers 1.28.7-1

> * What printers are physically present on your network?
One HP ENVY 5055

> * Have you configured a printer queue in CUPS manually, or are you relying
  on auto-detection?
auto-detection

> * Is cups-browsed installed? If yes, which version?
cups-browsed 1.28.7-1

> * What printer names appear in the GTK print dialog?
  (If they contain MAC addresses or serial numbers, you can censor them
  as XXXXXX)
HP-ENVY-5000-series-XXXXXX      (does not appear in featherpad)
HP-ENVY-5000-series-XXXXXX-USB  (does not appear in featherpad)
HP_ENVY_5000_series_XXXXXX_     (also appears in featherpad)
HP_ENVY_5000_series_XXXXXX_USB_ (also appears in featherpad)

> * For each printer name that appears:
>  * Does it appear in /etc/cups/printers.conf?
HP-ENVY-5000-series-XXXXXX      no
HP-ENVY-5000-series-XXXXXX-USB  no
HP_ENVY_5000_series_XXXXXX_     yes
HP_ENVY_5000_series_XXXXXX_USB_ yes

>  * Does printing to it work?  gedit   featherpad
HP-ENVY-5000-series-XXXXXX      no      (not present in dropdown menu)
HP-ENVY-5000-series-XXXXXX-USB  no      (not present in dropdown menu)
HP_ENVY_5000_series_XXXXXX_     no      no
HP_ENVY_5000_series_XXXXXX_USB_ yes     yes

>  * If not, what failure mode do you see?
    (Nothing happens / printer prints wrong results / other)
HP-ENVY-5000-series-XXXXXX     cannot click on print button
                               (print button is greyed out and status is:
                               "Getting printer information...")
HP-ENVY-5000-series-XXXXXX-USB cannot click on print button
                               (print button is greyed out and status is:
                               "Getting printer information...")
HP_ENVY_5000_series_XXXXXX_    nothing happens (status is: "Paused")