[Foo2zjs-maintainer] Bug#477923: foo2zjs: Hotplug firmware not loaded because of switch to udev

[Daniel Dickinson]

Package: foo2zjs
Severity: normal


The firmware for some hp printers is not loaded when the device is plugged / system booted because the hotplugging for the version in the debian archive depends on hotplug and doesn't know how to deal with udev doing the hotplugging (now standard).  This is fixed upstream along with supporting my printer that is not supported in the version in the debian archive (lenny), and so I currently have it installed from upstream source.

If the problem is time to work on it, I'd be happy to work on the package if you'd sponsor it.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'unstable'), (1, 'testing'), (1, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages foo2zjs depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-10     GNU C Library: Shared libraries

Versions of packages foo2zjs recommends:
ii  foomatic-db-engine      3.0.2-20080211-1 OpenPrinting printer support - pro