On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 02:01:30PM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> Le Thursday 30 September 2010 19:39:18 Till Kamppeter, vous avez écrit :
> > Package: foomatic-gui
> > Version: 0.7.9.3
> > Severity: serious
> >
> > The printer setup tools provided by the foomatic-gui source package,
> > printconf and foomatic-gui are not usable any more in modern CUPS
> > environments.
> >
> > (…) [See bug log.]
> >
> > Possible fixes are:
> >
> > 1. (A lot of work and re-inventing the wheel) Fix the software to poll
> > the PPD/driver info and the PPDs itself from CUPS when CUPS is in use.
> >
> > 2. Let foomatic-gui and printconf conflict with the "cups" package, so
> > that they do not get installed on systems where the printing environment
> > is CUPS.
> >
> > 3. Remove the foomatic-gui package from Debian altogether (recommended
> > if upstream development has been discontinued).
> >
> > Recommended replacement for CUPS users is system-config-printer.
> >
> > Till
>
> Hi dear Release Team,
>
> as discussed over IRC and at the Bern BSP, I propose to remove the
> foomatic-gui
> source package altogether from Squeeze (at least), for the following reasons:
>
> * Doesn't work with CUPS (the most used printing system), see this bug log,
> * Is basically not maintained, see the bugs reported on it, and their ages.
>
> This would have the following consequences:
> * many users without upgrade path (see the popcon numbers) but the
> functionality
> is available in other packages, spread in various desktop tools,
> * a bug on tasksel, (printconf is in desktop and print-server)
> * a bug on brdesktop-common, which recommends printconf.
>
> As further argueing, the first proposed solution is probably not doable at
> that
> point in freeze and the second solution proposed (conflict against cups)
> would
> not help much, as tasks should be updated anyway.
>
> As for the future, as this is a native package, it has to get updated by his
> upstream maintainer to be useful, and I don't see the Printing Team taking
> over
> that task.
>
> Release Team; what do you think ?
Chris, almost a year has passed. Do you agree with removal from
unstable or what's your plan for foomatic-gui?
Cheers,
Moritz
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