Re: future of xprint-related packages

[Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>]

On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 14:19 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> xprint has been removed from unstable for months now, libXfont upstream
> removed support for it, and there doesn't seem to be any movement
> towards bringing it back.  So I'm wondering if xprint-utils and
> libxprintutil should be removed as well, and maybe eventually also libxp
> (which has a handful of reverse deps) and x11proto-print.  Opinions?
> 

Hi Julien, you're right, we should retire Xprint.  I would like to see
it one last time in squeeze as a "grandfathering" step, and then drop it
after that completely.

I agree, once we've dropped it, there's no real need to include the
support libraries and utilities.

I've been giving higher priority to work, but I want to get this last
revision of Xprint done before the freeze (I'll wrap upstream in a final
release too).

Drew