Re: [RC: #598639] foomatic-gui/printconf: Not working in modern CUPS environments

[Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <didier@raboud.com>]

Mehdi Dogguy wrote:

> On 11/27/2010 02:01 PM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
>> 
>> as discussed over IRC and at the Bern BSP, I propose to remove the
>> foomatic-gui source package altogether from Squeeze (at least), for
>> the following reasons:
>> 
>> * Doesn't work with CUPS (the most used printing system), see this
>> bug log, * Is basically not maintained, see the bugs reported on it,
>>  and their ages.
>> 
> 
> I've added a removal hint for it.
> 
>> * a bug on tasksel, (printconf is in desktop and print-server)
> 
> A fix will be comitted in tasksel's Git repository (and an upload will
> follow).
> 
>> * a bug on brdesktop-common, which recommends printconf.
>> 
> 
> Julien reported #605595 earlier today... I'll followup there about
> foomatic-gui.
> 
> Regards,

Nice followup. Thanks for having taken care of it all.

Cheers, 

OdyX