Bug#244768: Bug#183405: [survey] Printing and the future of lprngtool in Debian
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 11:31:11AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> You are receiving this email because you have submitted a bug on the Debian
> package of lprngtool and I'm the current maintainer of it.
>
> I have been seeking a new maintainer for the lprngtool package for 4 months
> without anyone coming forward. I've found upstream to be next to dead. He
> occassionally responds to my emails in a non-timely fashion. Upstream hasn't
> made a release in years.
>
> I don't have the resources to maintain a Debian-specific fork of lprngtool,
> and I think there are other alternatives that make doing this unnecessary.
>
> I'd appreciate feedback from you as to how you would cope if lprngtool was
> completely removed from the upcoming Sarge release. One potential starting
> point is foomatic. Another is switching to CUPS.
>
> Your feedback will help ensure that I don't make a decision that adversely
> affects you.
Hello Andrew, as far as I am concerned, you can remove the package, but
I don't use it anyway.
My opinion is that removing lprngtool will avoid causing people to loose
time trying to make it listen to reason, and they will switch to a
better tool instead.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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