Re: pstotext - OK to remove completely?

[Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>]

I did not even know that pstotext exists, even not back in the early 
2000s when I established CUPS as Linux' standard printing environment.

So can be removed, nobody will miss it ...

   Till

On 06/01/2024 13:43, Steven Robbins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I randomly bumped into a reference to "pstotext" just now -- from ps2ascii
> manpage.
>
> The pstotext package was removed from testing in 2018 due to grave bug
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=895513
>
> The last upstream release was 2004 and there is no trace of upstream on the
> internet that I can see.  There's a wayback capture from mid 2007 but it was
> removed shortly afterwards.
>
> https://web.archive.org/web/20070609094538/http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/
> pstotext.htm
>
> To me, it seems  that this should just be completely removed from Debian.
> I'll file a removal bug unless there are objections?
>
> -Steve