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removing 'printtool' from archives
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| A Mennucc 2007-05-27, 7:18 am |
| hi
I am the mantainer of 'printtool'
brief history:
printtool was the GUI tool that Red Hat had developed for easy printer
configurations ; it was then ~2000 adopted by the GNULpr project at
http://lpr.sourceforge.net/ ; but, after the doc-com crisis, the project
was eventually abandoned.
Currently I mantain some code that came out of lpr.sf.net , and keep it
alive: in particular, I use and appreciate 'gpr' , and I have developed
the code (lately I added support for CUPS).
But I think that 'printtool' has outlived its usefullness: its database
of printers (that is actually contained in the package
'printfilters-ppd', for some strange reason) is outdated; and Debian
ships many tools to configure printing (foomatic-gui ,
gnome-cups-manager , just to name two) , that work well and have
up-to-date printer databases.
If nobody is interested in 'printtool', I will ask for its removal from
archive.
a.
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| Paul Wise 2007-05-29, 1:20 am |
| On 5/27/07, A Mennucc <mennucc1@debian.org> wrote:
> But I think that 'printtool' has outlived its usefullness: its database
> of printers (that is actually contained in the package
> 'printfilters-ppd', for some strange reason) is outdated;
Have all of the printer files (especially the older ones) in
printfilters-ppd been migrated the other printer databases in Debian?
--
bye,
pabs
http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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