On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 11:31:11AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > Greetings. > > You are receiving this email because you have submitted a bug on the Debian > package of lprngtool and I'm the current maintainer of it. > > I have been seeking a new maintainer for the lprngtool package for 4 months > without anyone coming forward. I've found upstream to be next to dead. He > occassionally responds to my emails in a non-timely fashion. Upstream hasn't > made a release in years. > > I don't have the resources to maintain a Debian-specific fork of lprngtool, > and I think there are other alternatives that make doing this unnecessary. > > I'd appreciate feedback from you as to how you would cope if lprngtool was > completely removed from the upcoming Sarge release. One potential starting > point is foomatic. Another is switching to CUPS. > > Your feedback will help ensure that I don't make a decision that adversely > affects you.
Hello Andrew, as far as I am concerned, you can remove the package, but I don't use it anyway. My opinion is that removing lprngtool will avoid causing people to loose time trying to make it listen to reason, and they will switch to a better tool instead. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here.