Package: wnpp Severity: normal The current maintainer of printbill, Daniel Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, is looking for a new Debian maintainer of his package. Being also the upstream author of it, he currently doesn't have the time anymore to also be the Debian maintainer.
If you want to be the new maintainer, please get in contact with the maintainer first. A new upstream version is in the works, but not yet finalized, ask the maintainer about the current status. Some information about this package: Package: printbill Binary: printbill Version: 4.1.2-1 Priority: extra Section: text Maintainer: Daniel Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Build-Depends: debhelper, libpng2-dev | libpng3-dev | libpng12-dev Architecture: any Standards-Version: 3.5.2 Format: 1.0 Directory: pool/main/p/printbill Files: 544beb953e05184cdf289fda0cd19a83 579 printbill_4.1.2-1.dsc 313a184b1b321aec083873423bedb97e 116620 printbill_4.1.2-1.tar.gz Package: printbill Priority: extra Section: text Installed-Size: 584 Maintainer: Daniel Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 4.1.2-1 Depends: gs, gsfonts, exim | mail-transport-agent, perl, lprng, debconf (>= 1.2.9), perl-modules, magicfilter, libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1), libpng2(>=1.0.12) Recommends: apache Suggests: samba, gnuplot Filename: pool/main/p/printbill/printbill_4.1.2-1_i386.deb Size: 125666 MD5sum: 8a7f21b393a9f46e2819848d0b169150 Description: Sophisticated print billing / accounting system for lprng Printbill calculates the amount of ink/toner and the number of pages used when printing a document. It uses ghostscript to convert postscript files into PNG bitmaps, then calls percentblack or percentcolour to determine the percentage coverage. Prices may be independently determined for for each printer, with set rates for black and colour ink/toner and per-page. Bill calculation is quite CPU intensive so printbill allows multiple concurrent billing processes to be executed - jobs may not be printed in the order in which they are sent to the queue. On SMP systems printbill will happily make use of all processors if so instructed. Printbill can bill before or after printing, or can be configured to only perform accounting. It is possible to bill based only on pagecount, but although it is much faster, it is easy to fool and is not recommended. . Users pre-pay a quota and this is automatically decremented as they print - alternatively one may just do per-user and per-printer accounting with no billing. Various mechanisms exist for generating a quote. Printbill also keeps detailed statistics on printing habits which may be of interest to administrators. The system may be managed via either a command-line application or via a convenient web interface (for non-tech people).
