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Re: New apsfilter



On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 02:36:49AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> 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.

Its mostly trivial to add that, I'm using one, and I'm working on a
template which we can use to generate filters for all the uniprint
printers..

> > 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.

I must agree, a choice is good, though I do think we need a primary
printer setup, as we have a primary MTA..

Zephaniah E. Hull.
> 
> > 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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