• Bug#244768: [survey] Printing and the future of lprngtool in Debian

    From Andrew Pollock@1:229/2 to All on Mon Aug 16 04:00:09 2004
    From: [email protected]

    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.

    regards

    Andrew

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