Comment 23 for bug 1069898

i have just had some minutes to recompile libsane-hpaio from Quantal's current source package (3.12.6-3ubuntu4) after applying the patch provided by Sanjay Kumar in comment #8 above and i can confirm that Sanjay's patch fixes the issue for me.

Peter, i'm not sure why installing hplip-3.12.10a from source or from hplip's upstream packages is not fixing the issue for you - as far as i can see from hplip-3.12.10a source tarball, the patch i have applied manually to the Ubuntu 3.12.6-3ubuntu4 package is there in upstream's latest release.

having said that, i *think* that before coming to identify the Ubuntu Q libsane-hpaio as the cuprit for the issue i was experiencing, i had indeed tried installing a newer version of hplip from upstream and that did not fix the issue for me either. now i can't remember if that was 3.120.10 or 3.12.10a, although i *think* it was the former - but this specific bit of code was added in 3.12.9 so that's pretty weird. maybe i had inadvertently left around some Ubuntu library before installing hplip upstream.