print/ghostscript6 and print/ghostscript-esp removal

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

Hi all,
unless someone is willing to actually fix the build issues of ghostscript6
and ghostscript-esp AND demonstrate why they are still needed, I will
remove them in two weeks.

Joerg

[Greg Troxel]

Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@...> writes:

> unless someone is willing to actually fix the build issues of ghostscript6
> and ghostscript-esp AND demonstrate why they are still needed, I will
> remove them in two weeks.

Not saying you are wrong, but it would be good to give a PR pointer or
description of what's wrong, and/or a quick summary of why you think no one
should want them.

I think the points are

  ghostscript-esp is superceded by ghostscript with options cups

  ghostscript6 is ancient, and ghostscript 8.70 is now GPL, so the GPL
  vs other license issue is not relevant

if those arguments are correct, then it would be reasonable to remove
them even if they weren't broken.

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 06:54:08PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:

>
> Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@...> writes:
>
> > unless someone is willing to actually fix the build issues of ghostscript6
> > and ghostscript-esp AND demonstrate why they are still needed, I will
> > remove them in two weeks.
>
> Not saying you are wrong, but it would be good to give a PR pointer or
> description of what's wrong, and/or a quick summary of why you think no one
> should want them.

I have asked about them in the past and not much has changed.
ghostscript-esp was broken by the new jpeg, ghostscript6 has never
worked with GCC 4. The rest is true, of course.

Joerg