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[Colin Watson <cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1266078

Title:
  Xprint is deprecated, so remove libxp?

Status in ecore package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in efl package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in gridengine package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in kterm package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in libxp package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in matlab-support package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in rox package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in texlive-bin package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in ubuntu-seeds package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in xawtv package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in xtel package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in xutils-dev package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in ecore package in Debian:
  Fix Released
Status in efl package in Debian:
  Fix Released
Status in gridengine package in Debian:
  Fix Released
Status in kterm package in Debian:
  Fix Released
Status in libxp package in Debian:
  Fix Released
Status in matlab-support package in Debian:
  Fix Released
Status in rox package in Debian:
  Fix Released
Status in texlive-bin package in Debian:
  Fix Released
Status in xawtv package in Debian:
  Fix Released
Status in xtel package in Debian:
  Fix Released
Status in xutils-dev package in Debian:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  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  The xprint package is obsolete and and has been removed.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.

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