Pasi,
I know that lsb is not maintained by Xubuntu; it was part of the Ubuntu
core up until 15.10. I wrote to this list because I am a Xubuntu user
and I was once active as a tester.
Aren't we at all concerned that users who have Epson printers might be
leaving Xubuntu, Lubuntu, etc.? I had to convert someone's laptop to
Linux Mint Debian edition just to get that individual reconnected back
to an Epson printer. The various *buntu release notes could have warned
Epson printer users that they should consider finding a new distro which
includes the lsb packages. This was a total surprise for Epson customers.
Yes, it is possible that the reason a package is removed from the
repositories is because it wouldn't work with other package versions in
the release and still meet the release date requirement. Someone could
have explained that.
I am not affected because the printer-driver-escpr package is a good
enough solution for my Epson XP-410 and the way I use it. However, if
this issue is not addressed, then I'll try to find time to explore lsb
myself but this is difficult given my personal time being donated
elsewhere for the last 2 years.
Richard
On 05/09/2016 06:23 PM, Pasi Lallinaho wrote:
On 2016-05-10 01:56, Richard Elkins wrote:
A reprint of message #31 in bug report #1536353 .....
I cannot understand why Xenial (16.04) dropped lsb in the first place
given how much dependency exists. However, I have tried two of the
suggested solutions and the printer-driver-escpr package provides
basic printing functions for my Epson XP-410 (I lucked out).
My request regarding the lsb packages of 15.10: PLEASE put them back
into 16.04. They might be "outdated" in some peoples opinion but the
users are at the mercy of 3rd party vendors who see no profit in
expending energy in this regard.
Other thoughts?
Hello Richard,
most individual packages (like lsb) available from the Ubuntu
repositories are not maintained by the Xubuntu team. What that
practically means is that the Xubuntu team does not make decisions
about them being in the archive or not.
If you want to discuss about putting some package back in the
repositories, you will at least need to talk to the maintainer of the
package. It's possible that the reason a package is removed from the
repositories is because it wouldn't work with other package versions
in the release. If you are lucky and this is not the case, you still
need to convince the package maintainer (or a new one) to reintroduce
the package and make sure it works. If you get this far, you will also
need the archive admins to approve the now "new" package.
You can increase your possibilities for reinclusion by volunteering to
doing one or more of the actual tasks I mentioned above.
Cheers,
Pasi
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