Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal

Xprint is considered deprecated by upstream (X.org).

I originally brought it into Debian to support printing of
international (nonlatin) web pages in firefox 2. Firefox 3 (iceweasel)
started using the Cairo and Pango libraries for printing and
internationalisation, making the need for Xprint redundant.

xprint was marked as deprecated in the version that went out with
squeeze; stray bugs have been patched up where possible and a final
version is sleeping peacefully at snapshot.debian.org for anyone who
might need it in the future. It's time to remove Xprint from the
Debian archives.

I put out a notice three weeks ago announcing the imminent removal of
xprint and related packages, 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/04/msg00941.html, 
cc:d to debian-x. No one has raised any objection to the removal.

In total, the collection of Xprint packages to be removed, 
grouped by source package, are:

xprint:
        xprint 
        xprint-common 
        
xprint-utils
        xprint-utils 

libxprintutil:
        libxprintutil1 
        libxprintutil-dev

libxprintapputil:
        libxprintapputil1 
        libxprintapputil-dev

libxfontp:
        libxfontp1 
        libxfontp-dev 
        libxfontp1-dbg
        
        
No other packages depend on them, aside from a harmless Suggests in iceweasel,
for which bug #626794 has been filed.

libXp (libxp6, libxp-dev) is a related library which allows client
programs to connect to an Xprint server. I do NOT want libxp removed
at this point in time as it does have some [reverse-]dependencies. The
trickiest to handle here will be lesstif/motif (well, not tricky at
all if the lesstif maintainers agree to do it!) and matlab-support,
since the commercial proprietary software matlab-support still links
to libXp. I've filed bugs to all the packages using libxp to check if
they really do need it (in some cases the libxp dependency slipped in
inadvertently when the all-encompassing xlibs package was split into
separate modular libx-* packages).

Sincerely,
Drew Parsons



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