On Thu, 26 Oct 2017, Zdenek Dohnal wrote:
HP changed website this week, which has consequences for getting hp
proprietary plugin - it cannot be downloaded anymore for hplip-3.17.9,
which is in stable Fedoras (f25 and f26) and Fedora 27. ...
upstream several times about uploading plugin into
openprinting.org
website, but without answer (probably because it was available on
hplipopensource.com). That's the situation for hplip-3.17.9.
Luckily, there is hplip-3.17.10 in updates-testing repository, which
has
plugin on
openprinting.org. So if someone now needs to install printer,
which needs proprietary plugin, please update hplip to 3.17.10 from
Not so much luck, as a sufficiently good process mostly being
followed ['The more a well designed process is followed and
tweaked with improvements, the more lucky one becomes' ;) ]
The post partially quoted above points up another benefit from
the virtue of 'packaging everything' as discussed in the
recent 'packaging ruby dependencies' thread. When an upstream
'goes wonky' for whatever reason (there was a similar example
in the Node.js ecosystem where a maintainer took down a minor
but critical dependency, and 'broke world'), one can 'fall
back' to the last SRPMS (and other VCS backups as well), and
recover
Without packaged sources, and the discipline of sub-dependency
determination and solution, and the 'four freedoms' checking
goodness of a formal 'licenses review', and the additional set
of eyes cross-checking work, one loses so much
-- Russ herrold