Gutenprint (good quality printer drivers for Linux) are out of date in Ubuntu Dapper (6.06)

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas]

Please backport Gutenprint 5.0.0 final to dapper-backports, it was released ~2 months ago and is available in Ubuntu Edgy.
I've recompiled Gutenprint 5.0.0 final from Ubuntu Edgy sources on Dapper without any changes to sources, backported packages you can download from
ftp://ftp.akl.lt/Linux/Baltix/Baltix-Ubuntu_packages/gutenprint/

Even Debian testing now has gutenprint 5.0.0 stable, why Ubuntu Dapper should have buggy 5.0rc2 ?

In final 5.0.0 release lots of bugs are fixed comparing to buggy 5.0rc2, for example Canon PIXMA iP4000 doesn't work in Ubuntu Dapper now, but works fine with gutenprint from Edgy, look at bug #37985

For changes look at
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=435706&group_id=1537

[John Dong (jdong)]

Attached is a testing backport of gutenprint from Edgy. Please let me know if it works.

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)]

Baltix 2.0 rc includes gutenprint from http://librarian.launchpad.net/4540033/gutenprint.tar.gz

[Przemek K. (azrael)]

Dapper is EOL.