lsb-printing dropped

[Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>]

Hi,

See

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lsb/+bug/1536353

According to this Ubuntu bug report Debian seems to have dropped the LSB 
compatibility packages, especially the printing part got removed:

lsb (9.20150826) unstable; urgency=low

  * Drop all the LSB compatibility packages besides lsb-release and 
lsb-base
    - Drop packages-availability checking in lsb-release
    - Truncate README.Debian to a minimum
    - Document this in lsb-base.NEWS.Debian
  * Change the versioning number to avoid any ambiguity; use joeyh's
    version.date, with version being Debian next stable's

 -- Didier Raboud <odyx@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:00:00 +0200

This breaks the auto-downloadable LSB-based printer driver packages from 
OpenPrinting, which are especially provided by Epson.

Could we do something about it?

Could we re-introduce lsb-printing?

Or is there a way to build distribution-independent packages not using 
the LSB?

   Till