Retire a package from Fedora i686 (not x86_64)

[Przemek Klosowski]

On 11/11/2015 03:54 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
> Am 11.11.2015 um 21:20 schrieb Fred New:
>>
>> On the other hand, my >10 year-old 32-bit system (Fedora 22) is the only
>> place my LaserJet 4L printer works. My 64-bit systems drop control
>> sequences (like they don't flush the output buffer), leaving the last
>> page of every job sitting in printer memory. I reported the bug a few
>> years ago, but it got closed as WONTFIX and now I can't find it in 
>> bugzilla
>
> we talk about a *bleeding edge distribution*
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_LaserJet_4#4L_and_4P
> "The LaserJet 4 series was discontinued in the 1990s"
>
> why in the world does somebody install a operating system released in 
> 2015 to drive harwdare realeased 10-15 years ago and *why in the 
> world* should recent hardware feautures ignored forever because of 
> users with such hardware?
>
This should not be a big problem---the printer used to work, so we have 
a regression. From Fred's description, it looks like a simple issue, 
actually.

I agree with you that the ball is in Fred's court, though: he's the one 
that wants to keep his stuff running so at least he should help to 
diagnose and report the problem (which he did), and follow up by 
tracking it to some satisfactory resolution (which he didn't). It seems 
to me that Fred should find, reopen and pursue his bugzilla report.

On the other hand, Harald, I have to say that in this case my irony 
detector bent the needle. You often voice your displeasure in this forum 
that some setup you used for years was broken by new stuff, and yet you say
> you CAN NOT HAVE both - leading edge software and legacy support forever

I just see this quoted back at you in the future :)



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