Dependencies on external dead projects

[Kok, Auke]

Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to know if anything will be done with these old bugs in the 4.6 version 
> of Xfce:
> 
> http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783 (xfprint relies on a2ps which 
> doesn't work at all for UTF-8 and will never be fixed)
> 
> http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2871 (xfce4-tips uses the "fortune" 
> program that depends on the dead librecode library that has critical bugs that 
> will never get fixed)
> 
> IMHO, the optimal solution would be to drop xfce4-tips and xfprint (and disable 
> printing in Mousepad - removing a non-working menu option is never a regression).

discutable, since it once worked properly it technically *is* a regression.


Auke