Hi Andrea, On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:02:48PM +0100, A Mennucc wrote: > I am the mantainer of 'lpr-ppd'
> 'lpr-ppd' is a daemon similar to 'lpr' ; > it was developed as part of project GNULPR > (see http://lpr.sf.net ) > unfortunately, after the dot-com crisis , > the project died > I have been keeping alive other packages from > GNULPR , which I use ; I am not wishing to keep > alive 'lpr-ppd' for these reasons : > - there are valid alternatives: all other GNULPR > tools work fine when the daemon is 'lprng' or 'lpr' > - 'lpr-ppd' is a daemon : there may be security issues > with it in the future, and I am not a security expert > - popularity contest shows that it is used by a scarce > number of users > - for those users, the change from 'lpr-ppd' to 'lprng' > or 'lpr' is a breeze There doesn't really seem to have been a question here. Are you looking for opinions about dropping lpr-ppd, or asking for someone on this list to act to remove lpr-ppd from testing? To get this package removed from the archive, you will need to file a bug against ftp.debian.org. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
