Xprint is deprecated, so remove libxp?

[Graham Inggs]

Copy-and-pasted almost verbatim from Debian bug #657253:

The xprint package is obsolete and and has been removed. A related library is libxp, which provides an API that enables client programs to access and use an Xprint server. Since we've gotten rid of xprint, one could argue it makes sense to get rid of libxp as well.

A number of packages depend on libxp. This situation sometimes arises historically from the time before xprint was considered obsolete, with Build-depends: libxp-dev being set in the past and then forgotten and untouched.

This bug has been filed to put the question of whether or not to keep libxp on the record, and to help keep track of the dependent packages (and the bugs filed against them).

In Ubuntu, libxp6 is seeded in desktop for compatibility with third party applications that expect libxp6 to be available, see bug #21953. In package matlab-support, libxp6 is a dependency as it was required by MATLAB, however this has not been the case since MATLAB R2011b.

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

Fix released in gridengine 6.2u5-7.2ubuntu1.

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

Fix released in kterm 6.2.0-46.1.

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

Fix released in xawtv 3.103-3.

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

Fix released in rox 1:2.11-1.

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

Fix released in xtel 3.3.0-17.1 and matlab-support 0.0.19+nmu1.

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

Fix released in texlive-bin 2014.20140926.35254-2.

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

Fix released in efl 1.8.6-2.2ubuntu1.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

libxp has been removed from Debian, and is now removed from Ubuntu as of wily.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I'm unsubscribing the ubuntu-archive team from this bug, since the remaining non-Ubuntu tasks on this bug were showing up on our to-do list. Feel free to resubscribe us if there's some new concrete action for us to take here.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

Tested in xenial with xtel and fix #733290 reverted.

gcc -o xtel -g -O2 -DUSE_MOTIF -DUSE_SYSLOG -DDONT_USE_POPUP xtel.o ligne.o bouton.o inet.o imprime.o lecteur.o procedure.o teleinfo.o copyright.o protocoles.o misc.o version.o xm.o -LVideotex -lVideotex -LWidgets -lWidgets -ljpeg -lXm -lXt -lSM -lICE -lXp -lXext -lX11 -lXpm -lXt -lSM -lICE -lXext -lX11
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXp
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile:1902: recipe for target 'xtel' failed

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

why would you revert #733290?

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

sorry, got it now