Greetings,
we had this discussion on printing several months ago ...
Till Kamppeter wrote...
> On 25/12/2022 10:20, Christoph Biedl wrote:
> > This however should be discussed with all the related package
> > maintainers and on debian-devel as well. Nothing I can afford to spend
> > time on right now given the bookworm freeze timeline.
>
> OK, let us aim for complete LPD/LPR/LPRng/legacy-libppd/gpr removal for
> bookworm+1 ...
Well, back then we came up with a decision for libppd but the process
that followed did not go quite well (read: It was fairly demotivating
for me). Since then, bookworm was released. And I've seen you're going
to present something at DebConf[1] - which unfortunately I will not
attend in person but I'll try online.
So, it's a good time to resume that topic. DebConf might be as well the
right moment to initiate a "Let's remove lpr-based printing from Debian"
discussion. How would you assess the situation and ideas today?
Without having looked into the old discussions, so just from memory:
Unike last December I'm more inclined today to just kick the old stuff
out of Debian, in my area that would be my legacy libppd and gpr which
depends on it. The latter would require some interaction with the
maintainer, but we could at least give that a try.
Thoughts?
Christoph
[1] https://debconf23.debconf.org/talks/42-the-new-architecture-for-printing-and-scanning-on-debian/
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