[Bug 524779] [NEW] Brother printer drivers in Lucid are 2.5 years out-of-date

[Bruce Miller]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: brother-cups-wrapper-laser

I have compared driver versions in this package (and the related package
brother-lpr-drivers-laser) with the driver dates listed on the Brother
website
(http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_prn.html).

The drivers in the two packages in Lucid date from July 2007 (version
2.0.1-1). The Brother website includes drivers up to November 2009
(version 2.0.4-1).

The copyright implications of including these drivers in Ubuntu was
discussed extensively in Bug 25966.

openprinting.org recommends using Brother's own Postscript drivers, at
least with models closely related to my own recently-puchased HL-5370DW.

.deb packages are available directly from Brother's website; using those
packages, however, carries all the customary disadvantages of going
outside Ku/Ubuntu's own package repositories.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Feb 19 23:43:58 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/installer/media-info'
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: brother-cups-wrapper-laser (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-13.18-generic
SourcePackage: brother-cups-wrapper-laser
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-13-generic i686

** Affects: brother-cups-wrapper-laser (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: lucid upgrade

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Brother printer drivers in Lucid are 2.5 years out-of-date
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