My brand new patience LXQt install is waiting for its first dist-upgrade, 3 days now, and I'm still getting warnings that hplip will be removed. Oh well, we'll try again later today.
BTW - KDE patience bombed on this EEEpc 1015px, but LXQt, is working great. It also has a great look about it.
Over 1000 updates listed, I hope that first update goes clean.