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I was able to avoid the use of deb2targz using ar (part of binutils, part of base-devel) :

model="9330cdw"
pkgname="brother-mfc-$model"
pkgver="1.1.2"
pkgrel=5
_revision=1
pkgdesc="LPR and CUPS driver for the Brother MFC-9330CDW"
url="http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/index.html"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
license=('unknown')
install="brother-mfc-${model}.install"
depends=('perl' 'brscan4' 'a2ps' 'lib32-libcups')
lpr_ver="1.1.2"
lpr_rev=1
cw_ver="1.1.4"
cw_rev=0
source=("http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf100400/mfc${model}lpr-${lpr_ver}-${lpr_rev}.i386.deb"
        "http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf100402/mfc${model}cupswrapper-${cw_ver}-${cw_rev}.i386.deb")
noextract=("mfc${model}lpr-${lpr_ver}-${lpr_rev}.i386.deb"
           "mfc${model}cupswrapper-${cw_ver}-${cw_rev}.i386.deb")
sha256sums=('d6af18bd4e33a2e01f6647cc1eb6d7f1b519bd9f32c525c0343e6883d66a0e04'
            '08cf568c6924a146b541077642bf07b22fd8aa2b5cca522b4f627430ed2eb2ec')

package() {
    cd $srcdir || return 1
    [ -d "mfc${model}" ] || (mkdir mfc${model} || return 1)
    for i in *.deb;do ar x $i && tar -xzf data.tar.gz -C mfc${model};done || return 1
    cd mfc${model} || return 1
    cd opt/brother/Printers/mfc${model} || return 1
    perl -i -pe 's#/etc/init.d#/etc/rc.d#g' ./cupswrapper/cupswrappermfc${model} || return 1
    perl -i -pe 's#printcap\.local#printcap#g' $srcdir/mfc${model}/opt/brother/Printers/mfc${model}/inf/setupPrintcapij || return 1
    cp -rf $srcdir/mfc${model}/usr/ $pkgdir/ || return 1
    cp -rf $srcdir/mfc${model}/opt/ $pkgdir/ || return 1
}

Also I'm trying to see how to avoid the printer being overwritten (changing back to default settings and being a USB printer) at each install of a new version of that package due to the call to the postupgrade() function. Shouldn't that one only be called at install time ?

jfk's comment is still accurate. lib32-libcups needs to be installed in order for this printer to work properly.

Following Onishin old tip, I confirm you may need lib32-libcups. "Generic-PCL_6_PCL_XL_Printer-pxlcolor.ppd" is not really working in my case.

• If not already done uncomment mutlilib on /etc/pacman.conf (both lines):

[multilib]

Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

• Run pacman.

I think the dependency on brscan4 should be optional.

It's probably a driver issue (and not a aur package one), but in my case I can't use properly this driver : the printer don't want to print hereticaly I have to use Generic-PCL_6_PCL_XL_Printer-pxlcolor.ppd instead...

What's the point of deb2targz? makepkg already extracts the .deb file for you, you just have to tar file that was inside it and is already there.