On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 10:47:08AM +0100, Dale Amon wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 06:38:49PM -0500, Brad Sims wrote:
>> If you want postscript back; simply grab the source deb and roll your own;
>> just edit rules under the debian folder. Delete the '--with-xprint' and
>> '--disable-postscript' lines and do 'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot'. However
>> I did give the debs a version number of 99 to keep apt from updating them
>> until there is a new mozilla version from upstream.
>
>I'd like a black and white clarification of the impact
>of the change so I know for certain whether to be
>incredibly pissed off at the packager or not:
>
> "If I were to dselect today, would I still
> be able to print to file a website page
> as ps?" [Y/N]
Yes. Printing PS to a file is still possible.
What is removed is the ability to have Mozilla/Firefox execute an
external command (e.g. lpr) in order to print.
>I do this as a matter of course, every single day
>to archive data important to projects I work on. I
>don't have time to rebuild mozilla myself all the time,
>so if the answer to this is that I cannot... I have
>four choices in descending order of desirability:
>
> * find someone else with a repository that
> overrides it.
>
> * freeze forever / manually update selected
> packages.
>
> * abandon Debian mozilla
>
> * abandon Debian
>
>If it is true that someone out there is playing with
>things important to my means of making a living, I do
>not appreciate it in the least.
>
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