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[Graham Inggs <graham@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Also affects: efl (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: efl (Debian) via
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=623646
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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

Title:
  Xprint is deprecated, so remove libxp?

Status in “ecore” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “efl” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “gridengine” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “kterm” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “libxp” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “matlab-support” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “rox” 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:
  New
Status in “xutils-dev” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “ecore” package in Debian:
  New
Status in “efl” package in Debian:
  Unknown
Status in “gridengine” package in Debian:
  Fix Released
Status in “kterm” package in Debian:
  Fix Released
Status in “libxp” package in Debian:
  New
Status in “matlab-support” package in Debian:
  Fix Committed
Status in “rox” package in Debian:
  Fix Released
Status in “xawtv” package in Debian:
  Fix Released
Status in “xtel” package in Debian:
  New
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  The xprint package is obsolete and and has been removed.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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