HPLIP's getSystemPPDs() function relies on searching for PPDs below common FHS
paths. None of these exist on NixOS, but the code assumes that at least one of
the directories will be found, and crashes when it doesn't (cups_ppd_path is
None and the code passes that to os.path.join).
A usable PPD search path for the running system on NixOS is
/var/lib/cups/path/share, so this patches the source to check this path as well.
This should fix the NixOS case and keep non-NixOS cases working too.
+ master should be roughly equivalent to 3.62.0
+ moving to the community repo because they are way better at fixing
things, while upstream epson almost never merges fixes
+ great thanks to @mwilsoncoding for debugging the problem:
+ `autoconf-archive` was missing
Otherwise, things like hp-setup segfault if you run them from another
nixpkgs checkout:
```
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.20.5)
Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 9.0
Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in ""
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
[1] 4543 abort (core dumped) result/bin/hp-setup
```
Otherwise, things like `hp-setup` fail finding gi:
```
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.20.5)
Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 9.0
Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/nix/store/rmzq8c4n47s4q4p31w18waz0zrba2ljl-hplip-3.20.5/share/hplip/setup.py", line 314, in <module>
ui = import_module(ui_package + ".setupdialog")
File "/nix/store/n0b076p351ma864q38if4yglsg99hw2s-python3-3.8.3/lib/python3.8/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1014, in _gcd_import
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 991, in _find_and_load
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 671, in _load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 783, in exec_module
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
File "/nix/store/rmzq8c4n47s4q4p31w18waz0zrba2ljl-hplip-3.20.5/share/hplip/ui5/setupdialog.py", line 31, in <module>
from base import device, utils, models, pkit
File "/nix/store/rmzq8c4n47s4q4p31w18waz0zrba2ljl-hplip-3.20.5/share/hplip/base/pkit.py", line 38, in <module>
from gi import _gobject as gobject
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gi'
```
