gs-esp patch for Warty Warthog (bug 8121)

[Wouter Stomp]

On 11/29/05, Henti Smith <henti at geekware.co.za> wrote:

> There is a bug in gs-esp and some HP laserjet printers.. The fix from
> linuxprinting works but there is an additional problem with gs-esp.
>
> The site referenced with a fixed package is not availible.
>
> We've just switched our whole office over to ubuntu and nobody can
> print. As you can imagine management is not happy and I need to fix
> this ASAP to keep them on ubuntu or we switch back to M$
>

A lot of the very popular HP Deskjets stopped working since Breezy as
well. See bug https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16066
Despite this not being a security issue, could this as well be a
candidate for an update?

Wouter.