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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
