The future of lpr and lpd

<<On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:39:49 +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[email protected]> said:

> Due to low code quality, known bugs, and a general lack of interest over
> the past several decades, we are currently considering retiring the
> entire lp* suite (lp(1), lpc(1), lpd(8), lpq(1), lpr(1), lprm(1),
> lptest(1), pac(8)) from base.

I did a lot of work on these tools about 25 years ago, and I have not
had any reason to touch them in nearly 20 as I use CUPS exclusively.
I expect that's true of most people who at one time used this suite.
I have been building WITHOUT_LPR=yes for many many years and have not
missed them.

-GAWollman