Samsung M2026 doesn't work (patch available)

[Till W.]

Splix is a free (libre) and open-source alternative to Samsung's closed-source ULD driver. Next to being free, Splix also offers better grayscale rendering than Samsung's ULD driver. Splix mainly provides a raster-to-QPDL filter (QPDL is Samsung's proprietary printer command language) and PPD files for respective printers.

In the past, I successfully used Splix to print with a Samsung M2022. When I had to replace the printer with an almost identical M2026 (same features, same enclosure, just younger) I noticed that the M2026 does not work with Splix as supplied by Ubuntu. (Printer accepts print jobs but does only produce empty pages or does not emit a page at all.)

I recently came across a patch (to Splix) from 2019 that makes the M2026 work by adjusting some details in the generated QPDL stream. The patch was committed here: https://gitlab.com/ScumCoder/splix (looks like a fork of the SourceForge repository where Splix was available in the past). Using the code from the Gitlab repo, I was able to successfully use the M2026 with Ubuntu 18.04.

Is there any way to get this modification into the Ubuntu splix (printer-driver-splix) package? I'm willing to help by creating a patch that can be applied against the package's source if needed/desired.