Re: Retiring lpr and lpd

On Sat, 21 Feb 2026 at 07:07, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Cy Schubert <[email protected]> writes:
> > I have extracted lpr/lpd and friends into its own repo on GH and will
> > create a port sometime next week or two.
>
> Let me get this straight, you intend to create a port for software which
> is still in base (and is expected to remain there for at least another
> year) and is known to be severely buggy?
>
> How about you spend your copious free time fixing Kerberos instead?
> Surely you're getting the same Jenkins reports we're all getting, which
> have been showing build failures in Kerberos for several weeks?

des, no-one here gets to control how other volunteers spend their time.

In any case it's a fine experiment to see if it would even work.

In fact, the challenge I've seen in us moving stuff into ports is that it then
DOESN'T work, and then when someone (eg me) needs it, it turns out
it builds, it ships but it's broken.



-adrian