Re: New apsfilter

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>]

Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 11:56:47AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > Is there somebody who wants to take over apsfilter?  This means a lot
> > of work at the beginning.  There is a new version, the postinst needs
> > to be turned into apsfilterconfig, uniprint support needs to be added,
> > printcap support needs to be checked/tested, lprng support needs to
> > be added.
> 
> OTOH, we could make a first step to simplify Debian and drop apsfilter
> completely, if nobody wants to maintain it. Magicfilter is much better,

     magicfilter is not much better.  It is different.  We're still in
     the situation where magicfilter supports one set of printers and
     apsfilter supports another.  I.e. magicfilter does not support
     uniprint printers yet.

> IMHO, and having one way of printer setup would make things easier for
> everyone. However, if apsfilter has some benefit over magicfilter, it should

Not IMHO having one MTA would make things easier for everyone, so we
are not going to abandon all the mta's and keep only exim.

> stay until magicfilter has catched up (and of course, if there is an
> apsfilter maintainer, it should stay also).
> 
> Otherwise, I wonder if anybody would miss it...

I would miss it.  My company would miss it and my house mate would
miss it.  Three people at least. :)

Regards,

	Joey

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