Source: libppd Version: 2:0.10-9 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: g...@packages.debian.org, debian.a...@manchmal.in-ulm.de, till.kamppe...@gmail.com
The libppd package is very old software with little use (maximum popcon is 148 for libppd0). As far as I understand, it was created by taking bits from a (today horribly outdated) version of CUPS, added some value and called it a day. Years passed, and among other annoyances, there is now a package name clash on libppd-dev, it could be provided by CUPS as well, and already does in Ubuntu. To resolve that problem I tried renaming the binary packages to something with a "legacy" in it, after some discussion with Till Kamppeter (CC'id) - that approach however wasn't quite well received. So instead I now intent to remove src:libppd entirely, I doubt it will be a great loss. The last reverse dependency of libppd is gpr (Cc'ed) which doesn't quite have a huge popcon counter either and is about to be removed sooner or later for depending on gtk2, see https://bugs.debian.org/1050359 If you have objections, please voice them now. Current plan is to file the RM in about a week. Christoph, maintainer of src:libppd
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