Bug #1536353 (Many Epson printers no 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.longer work as of 16.04)

[Richard Elkins]

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 They might be "outdated" in some peoples opinion but the 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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