Dear porters, Xprint (package xprint-xprintorg, upstream http://xprint.mozdev.org) is now compiled and uploaded for all architectures. It is a printing system based on the X protocol, permitting a more WYSIWIG print. It's need, for instance, to get mozilla to print non-latin letters or MathML. There is a bug report (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=161899&repeatmerged=yes) saying char signedness is broken on arm, powerpc, s390. Although the package compiles, apparently this could cause errors. We're not really clear what the problem is though. The bug reporter says the problem is in imake, but the Xprint imake is supposed to be the same as in XFree86. As far as I can tell, the package has compiled fine and I expect it will run fine. Could someone running these architectures kindly confirm or deny the bug, or add more details? The Xprt server is run automatically via /etc/init.d/xprint when xprt-xprintorg is installed, so it should be sufficient to test the package by running: $ apt-get install xprt-xprintorg xprt-common $ XPSERVERLIST="`/etc/init.d/xprint get_xpserverlist`" xplsprinters xplsprinters should list the printers available on your system (as identified by lpstat -a), for example printer: lp@strider:64 printer: samba@strider:64 printer: lj1200@strider:64 printer: 1440magic@strider:64 If xplsprinters returns the list, then Xprint can be considered to work, I think. I'd love to hear if it does. For any cut'n'pasters who want to contribute to the bug report, the email address for bug #161899 is 161899@bugs.debian.org. Or cc: me, I'm not subscribed to the porting mailing lists. Thanks for the help! Drew -- PGP public key available at http://people.debian.org/~dparsons/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A
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