<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Pasi,<br> <br> I know that lsb is not maintained by Xubuntu; it was part of the Ubuntu core up until 15.10. I wrote to this list because I am a Xubuntu user and I was once active as a tester.<br> <br> Aren't we at all concerned that users who have Epson printers might be leaving Xubuntu, Lubuntu, etc.? I had to convert someone's laptop to Linux Mint Debian edition just to get that individual reconnected back to an Epson printer. The various *buntu release notes could have warned Epson printer users that they should consider finding a new distro which includes the lsb packages. This was a total surprise for Epson customers.<br> <br> Yes, it is possible that the reason a package is removed from the repositories is because it wouldn't work with other package versions in the release and still meet the release date requirement. Someone could have explained that. <br> <br> I am not affected because the printer-driver-escpr package is a good enough solution for my Epson XP-410 and the way I use it. However, if this issue is not addressed, then I'll try to find time to explore lsb myself but this is difficult given my personal time being donated elsewhere for the last 2 years.<br> <br> Richard<br> <br> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/09/2016 06:23 PM, Pasi Lallinaho wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote cite="mid:57311BF0.2000900@shimmerproject.org" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2016-05-10 01:56, Richard Elkins wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote cite="mid:57311590.7090600@gmail.com" type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> A reprint of message #31 in bug report #1536353 .....<br> <div id="yui_3_10_3_1_1462834447657_2291" class="boardCommentBody"> <div id="yui_3_10_3_1_1462834447657_2290" class="comment-text" itemprop="commentText"> <p>I cannot understand why Xenial (16.04) dropped lsb in the first place given how much dependency exists. However, I have tried two of the suggested solutions and the printer-<wbr>driver-<wbr>escpr package provides basic printing functions for my Epson XP-410 (I lucked out).</p> <p>My request regarding the lsb packages of 15.10: PLEASE put them back into 16.04. They might be "outdated" in some peoples opinion but the users are at the mercy of 3rd party vendors who see no profit in expending energy in this regard.</p> <p>Other thoughts?</p> </div> </div> </blockquote> <br> Hello Richard,<br> <br> most individual packages (like lsb) available from the Ubuntu repositories are not maintained by the Xubuntu team. What that practically means is that the Xubuntu team does not make decisions about them being in the archive or not.<br> <br> If you want to discuss about putting some package back in the repositories, you will at least need to talk to the maintainer of the package. It's possible that the reason a package is removed from the repositories is because it wouldn't work with other package versions in the release. If you are lucky and this is not the case, you still need to convince the package maintainer (or a new one) to reintroduce the package and make sure it works. If you get this far, you will also need the archive admins to approve the now "new" package.<br> <br> You can increase your possibilities for reinclusion by volunteering to doing one or more of the actual tasks I mentioned above.<br> <br> Cheers,<br> Pasi<br> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Pasi Lallinaho (knome) ť <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://open.knome.fi/">http://open.knome.fi/</a> Leader of Shimmer Project ť <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://shimmerproject.org/">http://shimmerproject.org/</a> Ubuntu member, Xubuntu Website Lead ť <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://xubuntu.org/">http://xubuntu.org/</a></pre> <br> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> <br> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html>