Document the software last versions on which driver is known to work

[hgkamath]

• Firstly, A thankyou to the developer(s)
• Please do document the software last versions on which driver is known to work
• It is understandable that such driver software cannot be maintained indefinitely
• It is possible to keep printer functionality/access going by setting up a qemu-VM that has the printer driver, is given the paravirtualized usb connection. The VM may then share the printer back to host as a network printer.
• It is not known if old CUPS version drivers are forward compatible, and may even be hard to figure out what one needs to fix if one is not a cups/printer-driver expert.
• For a given release of mounaiban/captdriver (0.1.4-0.20231218git.1=711d4a56c57e2dde5cfbb166f036192a5913413c (20201116), 0.1.4.1-2.git627192.7=62719249ac34633338be54bc74beddd0e7003d38(20221013), ...), one must record the following version-details of the following software that are known to work
  • 1.) date of release: 20201116
  • 2a.) Linux-Flavor (fedora/debian/ubuntu/mint/alpine) preferably not a rolling release
  • 2b.) Linux-Flavor-Release-Version : Fedora-33 ?
  • 3.) CUPS version: ?
  • 4.) Linux kernel version (maybe the kernel version does not matter)
  • 5.) version of any other required software dependency
• possibly you have a setup/configuration that you use as a daily driver and hence is best known to work, please do share.
  • The software versions/environment during development and use-by-developer may be most well tested on the developer's software environment itself. A user could expect to have least problems if the user replicates and uses the same setup.
• Request to other users who chance upon reading this github issue to do the same by posting a comment below to this issue with the details

Ref:

• [1] https://openmandriva.pkgs.org/cooker/openmandriva-unsupported-release-x86_64/cups-drivers-captdriver-0.1.4-0.20231218git.1-omv2390.x86_64.rpm.html
• [2] https://repology.org/project/cups-drivers-capt/versions
• [3] 20200122 https://superuser.com/questions/1407626/how-to-install-canon-lbp3010-drivers-on-fedora (proprietary)
• [4] https://repology.org/project/cndrvcups-capt/versions (proprietary)