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Just installed SULDR driver for work with Samsung C460W printer from Linux Mint 22.2. That went fine. However all GUI package and some other package install fail with unmet dependencies to python 2.7 error

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$ sudo apt install suld-scantopc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 suld-scantopc : Depends: python (>= 2.7) but it is not installable
                 Depends: python (< 3.0) but it is not installable
                 Depends: python-imaging-sane (>= 1.1.7) but it is not installable or
                          python-sane (>= 1.1.7) but it is not installable
                 Depends: python-pypdf (>= 1.13) but it is not installable
                 Depends: python-pysnmp4 but it is not installable
                 Depends: python-six but it is not installable

This obviously happen because Debian removed Python 2.x support 3 years ago. However it would be time to finally upgrade SULDR package dependencies too. Because Python 2.x was obsoleted eons ago. And most importantly, due to latest Microsoft Windows 11 shenanigans we can expect large user influx in Linux desktop realm. These people has SULDR compatible Samsung/HP printers as well. If supplies are available, printers usually outlive 3+ OS generations. Would be nice to not break user experience impression for newcomers.