Request for package removal: libppd
Hi,
we have found an old, unmaintained package which will cause a package
name clash with the new cups-filters packages. It is
libppd
and
apt info libppd0
results in
Package: libppd0
Version: 2:0.10-8
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libs
Source: libppd
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 67.6 kB
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7)
Homepage:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3800&package_id=11729
Download-Size: 21.7 kB
APT-Sources: http://at.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu kinetic/universe amd64
Packages
Description: postscript PPD file library
PostScript was designed as a device independent language. To be able
to access device specific features like selecting different paper
trays and turning on different imaging models, each printer vendor
supplies a PostScript Printer Definition or PPD file. This library
reads those PPD files and provides functions that allow a program to
modify PostScript print jobs to access these special features.
Following the "Homepage: ..." link it turns out that the code was last
touched in 2002, 20 years ago. I also never heard about that package. So
nothing seems to use it.
Can this get removed from the archive?
Till
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