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Re: Pushing out printing-config now?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Fri May 4 20:45:49 2012
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 20:45:46 -0400
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To: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>
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On May 4, 2012, at 5:14 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jonathon Weiss [mailto:jweiss@MIT.EDU]
>> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 4:45 PM
>> To: Jonathan D Reed
>> Cc: Jonathon Weiss; release-team@mit.edu
>> Subject: Re: Pushing out printing-config now?
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>> OK, my gut reaction would be not to push it out until after finals, but I'm willing to be overrulled, or out-voted or whatever.
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> I concur; we have no compelling reason (that I know of) to push it out now, and this is why we have the policy we do.
> We'll just have to accept the extra support burden (if any?) a bit longer.
There's no real support burden -- the idea was to make the community aware that LPRng syntax is going away. We can reschedule this awareness period for the fall, and then pull it completely in IAP. Or we can pull debathena-lprng from all metapackages this summer, and then inform users that they're Wrong, and that private workstation owners can install the package if they want it.
Or we can just pull it completely this summer, and inform anyone that they lose. That's how real distributions do it...
-Jon
