Bug#859621: printer-driver-gutenprint: Regression in 5.2.11 for Brother printer

[Olivier Aubert <contact@olivieraubert.net>]

Actually, my wording was wrong: the Brother drivers do not use
gutenprint and gutenprint does not support the MFC7420, as far as I can
read the source/doc.

I just can acknowledge that the printer stopped working after upgrading
gutenprint to 5.2.11 (with a gutenprint-related error message), and
that downgrading gutenprint solved the issue. 

Regards,
Olivier



On Mon, 2017-04-10 at 17:41 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:
> On Wed 05 Apr 2017 at 15:04:53 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:
> 
> > On Wed 05 Apr 2017 at 12:13:56 +0200, Olivier Aubert wrote:
> > 
> > > I own a Brother MFC7420 printer (which requires proprietary
> > > drivers that use gutenprint).
> > > It has been working correctly with printer-driver-gutenprint
> > > 5.2.10. Since the upgrade to 
> > > 5.2.11-1+b1 (and idem with 5.2.11-1+b2), the printer stopped
> > > working, with the following
> > > message in /var/log/cups/error.log:
> > > 
> > > [cups-deviced] PID 27449 (gutenprint52+usb) stopped with status
> > > 1!
> > > 
> > > Similar issues can be found in Ubuntu [1] and ArchLinux [2].
> > > 
> > > I solved it for the moment by downgrading printer-driver-
> > > gutenprint to 5.2.10
> > > 
> > > [1] https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/printer-pauses-randomly-after
> > > -upgrade-to-16-04/5653
> > > [2] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=208475
> > 
> > Intriguing. The MFC7420 is not supported by Gutenprint! Where do
> > the
> > Brother drivers enter the picture?
> 
> To make it clear - there are two questions here. One is explicit.
> The other (is the MFC7420 supported by Gutenprint?) is implicit.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Brian.