Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> writes: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 09:59:54AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > > > LPRng could go into standard, its reasonably stable except for the last > > > month or so (and that appears in the unstable dist). I still not exactly > > > happy with the post/pre inst/rm scripts but they should be largely stable. > > > > Is there a formal procedure to put a package in standard? cupsys could > > go to standard as well. > > % apt-cache show lpr lprng cupsys | grep ^Size > Size: 85766 > Size: 894722 > Size: 2298766 > > Nice :< Hmm, I've never used cupsys but that provoked me into looking further into it. First, cups provides more than the other printing packages. It can print postscript to non-PS printers out of the box, and seems to include some version of GhostScript for that. If one subtracts out the included GS stuff (binary, additional .ps files, fonts) that weighs in with 2345 kB that leaves 1608 kB, which is already less than the installed size of lprng (1996 kB). Futhermore, 1225 kB of the package lands in /usr/share/doc or /usr/share/man. More documentation is generally considered a Good Thing. (For comparison: lprng boasts 205 kB of docs.) Bytecounts are from lprng_3.6.12-6_i386.deb and cupsys_1.0.4-7_i386.deb I conclude that cupsys-doc should probably be split off, and that a separate cupsys-ps package that only people without PS-aware printers needed would be a win (perhaps this could also somehow share with GhostScript). How lprng or cupsys compare on technical merit should be our main concern here. -- Robbe
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