Back history: I added xprt-xprintorg to the desktop task at the end of January after receiving bug #226605 which stated that More and more applications like Firebird, Thunderbird, Mozilla, Java, Openoffice and more need it so the default Debian desktop and print server installations should provide it. Also near the end of January, a new debconf question was added to xprint-common, about printer DPI, for bug #280159. The result is that we now have an additional debconf question added to default high-priority desktop installs of Debian. Unfortunatly this question is both quite long, as well as not being translated to many languages due to only being added to the default install path recently. It is also yet another question in the default desktop install path, which we have carefully tried to limit to only the questions one really needs to answer. And it doesn't even make much sense if you don't have a prointer. Oh yeah, it probably means people doing preseeded automatic installs will need to add yet another question to their preseeding; which means the installation manual is out of date, and will need to be translated, etc. Anyway, besides illistrating why new debconf questions can be pretty painful to the installation team, I mostly wanted to ask: Is xprintorg still needed to print from mozilla, openoffice, firefox, etc, or has that been cleared up since january? Should I remove xprt-xprintorg from the desktop task again? I don't have a printer, so I find it hard to keep up with this kind of thing. IIRC the last install I did on a system with a printer, 2 weeks ago, worked without xprint, but I could be mistaken. -- see shy jo
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