Dependencies on external dead projects

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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).

What would you suggest to replace the functionality that would be 
dropped?  How is losing functionality that works (for some people, even 
if not all) "optimal"?

I'm sure there are solutions out there, but someone has to commit to 
write the code.  Our resources are pretty limited, especially lately. 
Are you going to do it?

	-brian