On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 12:16:18AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 05:37 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Given that users will not be able to keep the sarge version of xprint on > > their systems when upgrading to etch due to the /usr/X11R6/bin transition, > > currently the choices for users are to have an xprint with this bug, or no > > xprint at all. In light of this, do you believe that grave is the correct > > severity for this bug? > I had been assuming the new libxfont would arrive sooner rather than > later, and was therefore expecting to summarily dismiss this bug once it > was in. Unfortunately the freetype2.2 fiasco (#370149) has complicated > the situation more than we were expecting. Having freetype 2.2 for etch really wasn't negotiable; it was pretty much the only way to restore binary compatibility with sarge, and upstream had made it clear that these symbols that libxfont was using constitute API abuse in their eyes. > > I have *never* found xprint usable on any of my systems, so I can't > > adequately judge whether this particular bug renders the package unusable or > > mostly so. > We can work why xprint doesn't work for you once X11R7.1 is safe and > settled :) I'm pretty sure I don't care to ever get it working, the last thing I need is /more/ printing daemons running on my system... > As for the severity here, thinking it through dispassionately it's not > true that xprint is unusable. It prints just fine, it's just that it > currently uses bitmap fonts since libxfont isn't supplying it with the > proper truetype fonts, so it comes out butt-ugly. > In a pinch, you can use the output. It contains the text of the web > page you're after, it's legible. You wouldn't want to use it to print > and send off a job resumé, however. Right, so even if it's not résumé quality, it's still an improvement over non-xprint print methods for those users that have need of it? If this is the case, then yes, please downgrade the bug to important. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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