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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