Backport hplip

I needed a newer version of hpijs to support a new printer.

Notes to sort:

- PENSER D'ABORD À REGARDER CE QU'A FAIT LE MAINTENEUR PRÉCÉDENT!!!!!!
dget http://backports.org/debian/pool/main/h/hplip/hplip_0.9.7-3bpo1.dsc
dpkg-source -x hplip_0.9.7-3bpo1.dsc
debian/changelog:
  * Backport of sid release 0.9.7-4 (no changes needed)
-> Last backport was trivial. Let's hope this one will be as well :)

- apt-get build-dep complains about libsnmp9-dev missing... Weird.
Switching libsnmp9-dev | libsnmp5-dev to libsnmp5-dev | libsnmp9-dev in /var/lib/apt/... does the trick.

- missing python-support
-> apparently related to the new python policy. A recent discussion on the list concluded that it is best not to follow the new python policy and hence avoid requiring a backported python.

Comment the 'dh_pysupport' call in debian/rules.

- use debhelper/bpo, change debhelper (>= 5.0.37.2, needed for the new Python policy version) to debhelper (>= 5.0)


- debuild -us -uc
=> unknown option -U
(option -U, from debian/patches/00patch-opts)

need to use patch/bpo
-> fix build-deps
patch (>= 2.5.9-3bpo1)

- debuild -us -uc
=> xargs: invalid option -- d

need to use findutils/bpo
-> fix build-deps:
findutils (>= 4.2.28-1~bpo.1)

- After installation:
hp-print --help
error: This program may not function properly with the version of PyQt that is installed (3.13.0).
error: Incorrect version of pyQt installed. Ver. 3.14 or greater required.
error: PyQt/Qt initialization error. Please check install of PyQt/Qt and try again.

The package works fine with 3.13. We can safely downgrade the requirement to 3.13 in base/g.py.



sylvain@cliss21:/usr/src$ mkdir temp
sylvain@cliss21:/usr/src$ cd temp/
sylvain@cliss21:/usr/src/temp$ cp ../hplip_1.6.7-2~bpo.1.diff.gz .
sylvain@cliss21:/usr/src/temp$ wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/h/hplip/hplip_1.6.7-2.diff.gz
--12:30:47--  http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/h/hplip/hplip_1.6.7-2.diff.gz
           => `hplip_1.6.7-2.diff.gz'
Résolution de ftp.debian.org... 128.101.240.212
Connexion vers ftp.debian.org[128.101.240.212]:80...connecté.
requête HTTP transmise, en attente de la réponse...200 OK
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12:30:54 (202.10 KB/s) - « hplip_1.6.7-2.diff.gz » sauvegardé [247960/247960]

sylvain@cliss21:/usr/src/temp$ gunzip *
sylvain@cliss21:/usr/src/temp$ interdiff hplip_1.6.7-2.diff hplip_1.6.7-2~bpo.1.diff


mentors.debian.net:
E: hplip source: package-needs-python-policy-debhelper
N:
N:   The source package requests dh_python compatibility level 2 (or
N:   higher) in debian/pycompat but doesn't depend on a new enough
N:   debhelper. A Build-Depends on debhelper (>= 5.0.37.2) is required for
N:   this support.
N:

-> debian/pycompat -> s/2/1/



hplip (1.6.7-2~bpo.1) sarge-backports; urgency=low

  * Rebuild for Sarge - http://www.backports.org/
  * Added dependencies to patch/bpo and findutils/bpo
  * Downgraded pyqt-utils dependency from 3.14 to 3.13 (works ok)
  * Removed Python-policy-related python-support dependency and a
    dh_pysupport call.

 -- Sylvain Beucler <beuc@beuc.net>  Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:04:28 +0200

In debian/control, add your name:

Uploaders: Torsten Landschoff <torsten@debian.org>, Sylvain Beucler <beuc@beuc.net>

Once you finished compiling your packages, you can try to install them using debi:

/usr/src/hplip-1.6.7$ su -c debi

This will install all the packages generated by the hplip source package :)

To report to the package maintainer:

• Switching libsnmp9-dev | libsnmp5-dev to libsnmp5-dev | libsnmp9-dev to work-around 'apt-get build-dep'.
• sudo dpkg -i hplip... fails - probably because sudo cleans the environment.
• Possibly precise the patch and findutils dependencies
• Possibly precise the pyqt-utils dependency
  1. won't work directly w/o 3.14
  2. also work with 3.13, so maybe use 3.13