Bug#176737: magicfilter

[david@eos.lugs.ch (David Frey)]

Hi Adam,

On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 08:47:17PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote:

> I have noticed that magicfilter is up for adoption. I'm not sure if
> someone is doing too much work on it yet, but if no, then I would like
> to adopt it.

Greg Deitrick has packaged magicfilter 2.0 with my some help of mine.
But he is not (yet) a Debian maintainer. Greg?

> I use magic filter with lpr (which I've been fixing up over
> the last few weeks). I actually use it with the old HP DeskJet 500 (over
> 17 years old now!!).

I use it with a Laserjet 4MP with lpr too.

> I would like to add a better configuration utility that will parse
> /etc/printcap and allow people to change/delete/add printer settings.

OK.

> Are there any reasons why version 2.x has not made it into Debian yet?

First, Greg has just recently finished packaging and secondly, I
hesitated to install a new version of magicfilter with a new
configuration syntax.

Thanks,
  David