Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org
Control: retitle -1 RM: ippusbxd -- ROM: replaced by ipp-usb
Control: severity -1 normal
Control: affects -1 src:ippusbxd
Le vendredi, 17 juillet 2020, 19.21:21 h CEST Brian Potkin a écrit :
> > ippusbxd is still supported upstream on OpenPrinting, but due to the fact
> > that ipp-usb works much better, I highly recommend that
> >
> > - CUPS gets "Recommends: ipp-usb"
> >
> > - ipp-usb and ippusbxd get a mechanism that only one gets installed at a
> > time and the "Recommends: ipp-usb" in CUPS triggers a switch-over to
> > ipp-usb.
> >
> > - Leave ippusbxd in the distro, for experimental, IoT, ... purposes. There
> > are contributors who are working on improving it. I do not actively
> > working
> > on it by myself. Most probably it will get made working well some day
> > because of Chrome OS.
>
> All fine with me. But it does give OdyX more work to do.
Yeah. And because of this, I'll ask for ippusbxd removal: it doesn't make
sense from the Printing Team to maintain two different implementations for the
same functionality. If someone needs that package in experimental (or sid),
they can reintroduce it.
Reassigning to ftp-master for removal.
Regards,
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